Mary Pratt Quotes

#1. The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

Francois Guizot

#2. Thus you get everything from this book that C. S. Lewis would want. The story drives the truth into your heart, and the Scripture behind the story drives it into your mind.

David Jeremiah

#3. Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.

Harry J. Anslinger

#4. When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.

Mary Pratt

#5. Friendship is far more delicate than love.

Hester Lynch Piozzi

#6. I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, that Jesus Christ was married at Cana of Galilee, that Mary, Martha, and others were his wives, and that he begat children.

Orson Pratt

#7. The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

Paulo Coelho

#8. I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Sandra Bernhard

#9. if some shank decides he's a sissy-pants and tries to turn back, I'll make sure he does it with a broken nose and smashed privates.

James Dashner

#10. In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.

Mary Louise Pratt

#11. My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.

Mary Pratt

#12. Dickhead. He makes a beeline for Kate, not even seeing the other women who are right in front of him. Tunnel vision. He wants her bad.
Where have I seen the look on his face before? Oh, yeah. In the mirror.

Vi Keeland

#13. Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint assumes that the one who does can paint anything. The one who is the painter sometimes finds it difficult to live up to that faith.

Mary Pratt

#14. The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

Mary Pratt

#15. I can't stand theory because it is imposed by the intellectual. And the intellectual is, by definition, not a creative person. The intellectual is a person who talks about the creative process, but often doesn't understand it.

Mary Pratt

#16. It's so hard for women in this business. And I want to be doing this when I'm 50.

Sienna Miller

#17. The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

Mary Pratt

#18. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." ~Lord Chesterfield, Letter to His God Son

Dawn Flowers