James Gurney Quotes

#1. But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.

Ally Carter

#2. There is no line between fine art and illustration; there is no high or low art; there is only art, and it comes in many forms. (p. 12)

James Gurney

#3. A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

Cinda Williams Chima

#4. Title everything you do, if for no other reason than so you can find it again on your computer.

James Gurney

#5. There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Lee Trevino

#6. Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. A moment well spent is the best accomplishment. Yesterday is a phantom and tomorrow a mirage. The only day worth living is this one. If we can do that wekl, the yesterdays and tomorrows take care of themselves

James Gurney

#8. I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

Chuck Grassley

#9. Survival of all or none.
One raindrop raises the sea.
Weapons are enemies even to their owners.
Give more, take less.
Others first, self last.
Observe, listen, and learn.
Do one thing at a time.
Sing every day.
Exercise imagination.
Eat to live, don't live to eat.

James Gurney

#10. A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

#11. Greatness in art is always a by-product.

Harold Rosenberg

#12. It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its power of concentration upon absolute essentials.

Sigfried Giedion

#13. [Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. You should never wear anything you can't afford to lose.

Sloane Crosley

#15. Wait for me somewhere between reality and all we've ever dreamed.

Peter Pan

#16. If you don't grow up by age 35, you don't have to.

James Gurney

#17. Made by Hand is impossible to set down once you start reading it.

James Gurney

#18. The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering project that has changed U.S. society enormously.

Noam Chomsky

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Nora Roberts

#20. Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

Edward Burnett Tylor