Soulages Museum Quotes

#1. No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

#2. Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

Claudius Claudianus

#3. The most important question that we should ask is, "How can I serve?

Debasish Mridha

#4. Why, if I were to believe what everyone says about me, I would think myself quite, quite ugly. But I don't believe everyone, you see ... I believe you because you are my friend. You think I'm beautiful, and so I am.
- The Old One

James Howe

#5. The only reason Toronto is no longer the dullest city on earth is that it is no longer full of Anglo-Canadians. It is full of Hong Kong Chinese. And not a few Italians.

Joel Garreau

#6. Brad's smile reflects mine. "Morning, cutie." I melt just like the Wicked Witch. "Morning," I reply, unable to do anything else but smile.

Beth Michele

#7. Dunford arrived a few minutes later and gave her an approving nod. "You look lovely, Henry."
She smiled her thanks but decided not to put too much stock in his compliment. It sounded like the sort of thing he said automatically to any woman in his vicinity.

Julia Quinn

#8. I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

Toby Jones

#9. In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

Samuel Rutherford

#10. At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art.

Pierre Soulages

#11. Life serves the risk taker.

Sophia Amoruso

#12. Sometimes the visionary aspect of any particular day comes to you in the memory of it, or it opens to you over time.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. Sin is nothing more than a most extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who were when we were created as a spirit that came forth from the heart of God the Father - as a spirit made in His sinless image.

Praying Medic

#14. And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began. Next the ghastly ticking of a death-watch in the wall at the bed's head made Tom shudder - it meant that somebody's days were numbered.

Mark Twain

#15. I want my fiction to feel real most of the time, so it makes sense to pay attention to life and to how people work.

Nick Earls