Unskilful Quotes

#1. Hence the unskilful rashly infer, that man did not sin by free choice.

John Calvin

#2. It was true that Odette played vilely, but often the most memorable impression of a piece of music is one that has arisen out of a jumble of wrong notes struck by unskilful fingers upon a tuneless piano.

Marcel Proust

#3. My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.

Thomas Hardy

#4. He is an unskilful physician that cannot cure one disease without casting his patient into another.

Thomas More

#5. The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

Will Self

#6. Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

Pipilotti Rist

#7. Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth.

Stephen Grey

#8. The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Samuel Johnson

#10. We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything.

Stephen Colbert

#11. The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

Otto Schily

#12. To be aware of an experience means that it has passed

Tor Norretranders

#13. When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

Sarah Addison Allen

#14. America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

Ahmed Chalabi

#15. I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

Douglas Wood

#16. I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Anne Frank

#17. A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater.

Lisa Randall

#18. The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Mark Twain