Michael Angelo Quotes

#1. In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.)

Mark Twain

#2. No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything.

"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all" - Michael Angelo

Jonathan Harnum

#3. While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof,
His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose
How sinew that has been pulled tight,
Or it may be loosened in repose,
Can rule by supernatural right
Yet be but sinew.

William Butler Yeats

#4. The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed that he ever realised how the roof of the Sistine Chapel might be made into an awful imitation of a divine drama that could only be acted in the heavens.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. It is such a comfort to nestle up to Michael Angelo Sanzio Raphael when one is in trouble. He is such a grand tree. He has an understanding soul. After I talked with him and listened unto his voice, I slipped down out of his arms.

Opal Whiteley

#8. Dan said the other day to the guide, Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!

Mark Twain

#9. Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Phillips Brooks

#10. I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

Mark Twain

#11. I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

Mark Twain

#12. If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.

Michael Angelo Batio

#13. My life was like living Love's dream, until he betrayed me. That's when I realized that I wasn't as important to him as I thought I was.

Sparkling Amethyst

#14. We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail.

Steven Cojocaru

#15. Oh, Clikk, thank the stars!' she exclaimed, leaping into my arms. 'The pirate man said to trust him and so I gave him my dress and went with the other pirate in his ship!'
'Oh, good,' I said. 'But next time a pirate tells you to trust him, you mustn't. Understood?

Meg Merriet

#16. I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

Michael Angelo Batio

#17. You love the lifestyle you live, and instead of licking your wounds and moving on, you'd rather fix your broken marriage. And I'm here to help you." "But how?" A slow, sardonic smile unfurls across my face. "I'm going to teach you how to fuck your husband.

S.L. Jennings

#18. The noise made Kim want to cover her ears, reminding her, as it did, of diarhoettic excretion.

Shaun Hutson

#19. Love, at every opportunity you are given. Be less afraid. Embrace each day (none are promised). Cry when you need to, it'll make you feel better. You were put on this planet to feel every feeling you could, do that. Everything works out in the end, I promise.

Pleasefindthis

#20. I can go to India and draw 20,000 people at a concert, and it's really because I've built up an internet presence.

Michael Angelo Batio

#21. I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

John McGahern

#22. Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.

Tsugumi Ohba

#23. Going on You Tube, you see a lot of my videos. And I'm glad; there's numbers there. And I get this all the time, that when I'm actually in concert, there's a whole new level to it. There's this whole new energy level. It's hard to describe. But I just love to play, and I never take it for granted.

Michael Angelo Batio

#24. How much better life must have been for jealous drunks before emails and texts and mobile phones, before all this electronica and the traces it leaves.

Paula Hawkins

#25. I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.

Michael Angelo Batio

#26. Well, hell, Rico. You're wasting your time being a hotelier when you should be a saint.

Maureen Child

#27. I think no matter how much you learn, there's always more to learn.

Michael Angelo Batio

#28. Rise Above The Noise - with a good book!

William Davrick

#29. Do you think they vacuum every day, like we do?

Jojo Moyes

#30. What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?

Dorothea Benton Frank

#31. The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

William Shakespeare

#32. At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!

Michael Angelo Batio

#33. Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Thomas Traherne