Plumped Charlotte Quotes

#1. If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

Jeff Koons

#2. The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

Ian McKellen

#3. The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Edward Tufte

#4. A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.

Frances O'Roark Dowell

#5. Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest ... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.

Josephine Baker

#6. Every manifestation of creative work is a means of communication which allows one spirit to recognize another.

Otokar Brezina

#7. I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

Ben Bradlee

#8. Art is a form of catharsis.

Dorothy Parker

#9. We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mirth or passion, sentiment or reflection; whichever of these most predominates in our temper, it gives us a peculiar sympathy with the writer who resembles us.

David Hume

#10. The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!

Kenneth Grahame

#11. I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.

Garry Shandling

#12. [T]he parent-child relationship was one way, you gave them all your love and they were under no obligation to pay a penny back. Of course, if they did love you then that was the icing on the cake with cherries on top. And chocolate shavings and those little silver balls that cracked your fillings.

Kate Atkinson