Lord Leighton Quotes

#1. Randolph Henry Ash's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt, a meditation on the myths of resurrection. Lord Leighton had painted her, distraught and floating, a golden figure in a tunnel of darkness. Blackadder

A.S. Byatt

#2. I know her name. I remember because I forgot. That's one of the joys of love. Well, two of the joys.

Jarod Kintz

#3. Time is a powerful friend or adversary.

Pepper D. Basham

#4. When he looked again, Ty had Zane by the hand and was dragging him toward the old Mustang. Zane only managed to stop Ty's excited ramblings by grabbing his face and kissing him. Harrison

Abigail Roux

#5. The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

George Muller

#6. There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

Patrick Kavanagh

#7. People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

Roy Ayers

#8. Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

#9. Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Mark Twain

#10. They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.

Adrienne Rich

#11. Good Lord, he even has sexy forearms!

M. Leighton

#12. To those who will see, the world waits.

Libba Bray

#13. Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Laurie R. King

#14. Procrastination has become its own solution - a tool I can use to push myself so close to disaster that I become terrified and flee toward success. A more troubling matter is the day-to-day activities that don't have massive consequences when I neglect to do them.

Allie Brosh

#15. In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

Russell Brand

#16. Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

Alex Tabarrok