Nimios Quotes

#1. Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]

Juvenal

#2. It is an intimately communicative affair between the painter and his painting, a conversation back and forth, the painting telling the painter even as it receives its shape and form.

Ben Shahn

#3. Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.

Dinesh D'Souza

#4. The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

Sara Paretsky

#5. If you don't give your heart away, you can't get it broken.

Addison Moore

#6. Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

#7. I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

Wynton Marsalis

#8. national press. He called them by their first names, invited them

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#9. Being Michael Jordan means acting the same as I always have.

Michael Jordan

#10. I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Rumi

#11. Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

Elif Safak

#12. The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.

Justine Kurland

#13. Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

Thomas Otway

#14. I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

Bill Veeck

#15. I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.

Willem Dafoe