Top 100 Sargent Quotes
#1. Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ...
William Rothenstein
#2. He was struck by what a glorious and fearless animal Blue Sargent was, and he made a mental note to tell her that very thing, if she didn't drown getting whatever the second thing was.
Maggie Stiefvater
#3. Blue was filled with the uncomfortable certainty that she probably needed to label the stack BLUE SARGENT IS A HYPOCRITE in her own handwriting.
Maggie Stiefvater
#4. Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
Claude Monet
#5. She was decidedly uncomfortable with the switchblade. Although she very much liked the idea of it---Blue Sargent, desperado; Blue Sargent, superhero; Blue Sargent, badass---she suspected that the only thing she would cut the first time she opened it was herself.
Maggie Stiefvater
#6. Sergeant Colon owed thirty years of happy marriage to the fact that Mrs. Colon worked all day and Sargent Colon worked all night. They communicated by means of notes. They had three grown-up children, all born, Vimes had assumed, as a result of extremely persuasive handwriting.
Terry Pratchett
#7. Leaves," Ronan Lynch's voice said, full of intention.
"Dust," Adam Parrish said.
"Wind," Blue Sargent said.
"Shit," Henry Cheng added.
Maggie Stiefvater
#8. And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
David Hockney
#9. Blue. My name's Blue Sargent.'
'Blair?'
'Blue.'
'Blaize?'
Blue sighed. 'Jane
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. Something strange and chemical was happening to the Gray Man. Once, he'd been stabbed with a screwdriver - Phillips head, bright blue handle - and falling in love with Maura Sargent was exactly the same.
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. Then she smiled as if the woman had already helped her. If there was one thing Blue had learned while being a waitress and dog walker and Maura Sargent's daughter, it was that people generally became the kind of person you expected them to be.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. She did not feel like Blue Sargent, superhero, or Blue Sargent, desperado, or Blue Sargent, badass.
Maggie Stiefvater
#13. No homework. I got suspended," Blue replied.
"Get the fuck out," Ronan said, but with admiration. "Sargent, you asshole.
Maggie Stiefvater
#14. Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
J.R. Moehringer
#15. It was not just a touch, an action. It was a simplification of both of them: They were no longer Noah Czerny and Blue Sargent. They were now just him and her. Not even that. They were only the time that they held between them.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of public service was the ultimate aspiration.
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#17. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.
Robert Hughes
#20. But what [Gansey] said was, "I'm going to need everyone to be straight with each other from now on. No more games. This isn't just for Blue, either. All of us."
Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied, "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever told."
Blue said, "Okay.
Maggie Stiefvater
#21. When he came to, the eels were still being removed from him and Anvar was congratulating one of the rivermen. The man had smashed open a barrel of eels and covered both dwarf and zombie with them.
Ian Livingstone
#22. The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
Sargent Shriver
#23. The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!
Epes Sargent
#27. The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
Thomas J. Sargent
#28. The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!
Epes Sargent
#29. The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.
Sargent Shriver
#30. At this, Gansey rolled over onto his back and folded his hands on his chest. He wore a salmon polo shirt, which, in Blue's opinion, was far more hellish than anything they'd discussed to this point.
Maggie Stiefvater
#31. Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.
Sargent Shriver
#32. Hirsute? What does that mean?'
'Hair, you ninny, hair!
Carl Sargent
#33. It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is.
Sargent Shriver
#34. Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.
Epes Sargent
#35. He mumbled, "I'd ask you out, if I was alive."
"I'd say OK," she replied.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. Wait!' called Blue. 'Will you tell me about my father?"
"No," Gwenllian replied. "I will get mayonnaise.
Maggie Stiefvater
#38. Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.
Judith Sargent Murray
#40. An exile, ill in heart and frame,
A wanderer, weary of the way;
A stranger, without love's sweet claim
On any heart, go where I may!
Frances Sargent Osgood
#41. And yet we check and chide
The airy angels as they float about us,
With rules of so-called wisdom, till they grow
The same tame slaves to custom and the world.
Frances Sargent Osgood
#43. Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth;
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.
Frances Sargent Osgood
#45. True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.
Epes Sargent
#46. I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.
Thomas J. Sargent
#48. What can change the world today is the same thing that has changed it in the past-an idea and the service of dedicated, committed individuals to that idea.
Sargent Shriver
#49. Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.
Sargent Shriver
#50. 'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
Pamela Sargent
#51. He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
Sargent Shriver
#52. My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
Pamela Sargent
#53. Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
Sargent Shriver
#54. I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us.
Sargent Shriver
#55. To be Christians indeed, is to have our hearts changed by God's Holy Spirit, so as to have His love shed abroad there where once was only hatred and indifference; to have repentance where there was once no sense of sin; and to have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ where at one time was unbelief.
George E. Sargent
#56. The approval of someone like him, who clearly cared for no one, seemed like it would be worth more.
Maggie Stiefvater
#57. The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.
Epes Sargent
#58. I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
John Singer Sargent
#61. It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.
Dick Sargent
#62. Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.
John Singer Sargent
#63. It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything.
Sargent Shriver
#64. One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
Sargent Shriver
#65. There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever.
Sargent Shriver
#67. Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
In learned doctor's spite;
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
And lap me in delight.
Charles Sprague Sargent
#68. In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if we do, it will blow our model out of the water.'
Thomas J. Sargent
#69. I wanted him to love me, and I'm quite sure that he didn't.
Dick Sargent
#71. Blue," he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey.
She said, "I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.
Maggie Stiefvater
#72. And wheresoever, in his rich creation,
Sweet music breathes
in wave, or bird, or soul
'Tis but the faint and far reverberation
Of that great tune to which the planets roll!
Frances Sargent Osgood
#73. You can't compare one person's coping capacity to another, hon.
Maggie Stiefvater
#75. If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Sargent Shriver
#76. People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
Pamela Sargent
#79. Friend, we are well met indeed. I think we are a pair of fools and that we should hasten to Nildren's Peak, where I shall buy ye such a dinner as even your great frame will find sufficient. And then we shall see who can drink the other under the table. Is that good by ye?
Ian Livingstone
#80. A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.
John Singer Sargent
#81. When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.
Thomas J. Sargent
#82. Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill
Frances Sargent Osgood
#83. Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration.
Sargent Shriver
#84. The Peace Corps is guilty of enthusiasm and a crusading spirit. But we're not apologetic about it.
Sargent Shriver
#85. Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
Sargent Shriver
#86. Now Blue looked promptly judgmental, which was about two ticks off from her ordinary expression and one tick off from Ronan's.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
Epes Sargent
#88. Better confide and be deceiv'd,
A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
Than once accuse the innocent,
Or let suspicion mar repose.
Frances Sargent Osgood
#89. The warm days of Firestreak are usually good for travellers in the world of Amarillia.
Ian Livingstone
#90. My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
Sargent Shriver
#91. An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
John Singer Sargent
#92. It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.
John Singer Sargent
#93. And here, in truth, was the inexperienced youth's great danger - the danger of mistaking in others a mere profession of religion for heart piety, and of being himself led to rest satisfied with a form of godliness.
George E. Sargent
#94. Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.
Judith Sargent Murray
#95. Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
Sargent Shriver
#97. Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I picked up on SF somewhat later than that; my escape reading of choice during my youth was historical novels, and one of my favorite writers was Mary Renault.
Pamela Sargent
#99. In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
Sargent Shriver
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