Limner's Quotes

#1. An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

Walt Whitman

#2. All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

Stephen Charnock

#4. The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

Thomas Jefferson

#5. If you really want to make a relationship work, at some point in time, you're going to have to make some sacrifices and do some things that are a little bit uncomfortable.

Ashton Kutcher

#6. Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Georg Buchner

#7. People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

Veronica Roth

#8. All art is advertising. It stands for a particular point of view. Art that exploits badness is advertising badness.

Jack Beal

#9. What's a miffin?"

"Trippy muffin.

Abigail Roux

#10. Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come
(Phebe)

William Shakespeare

#12. Myths arise from actual events, remarkable events that get talked about precisely because they are remarkable and which then get embellished in the retelling.

Matthew Reilly

#13. What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

Walter Scott

#14. But after a moment Laurent turned his eyes elsewhere, and then closed them, and they both made their way to sleep.

C.S. Pacat

#15. Gratitude makes the world a softer, kinder place. It softens that brittle shell of defence. There is always something to be grateful for, no matter how small or simple.

Janey Colbourne