Varnishes Quotes

#1. Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life

Frank Wynne

#2. I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the first pattern, and then she had people working for her. So I grew up in an atelier, watching people all around me sewing. I was fascinated.

Donatella Versace

#3. Only if divine love burns in your heart can you awaken in a state of readiness, shaking off the paralyzing sleep that will overcome all humanity, believers and nonbelievers alike.

Basilea Schlink

#4. I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

Hallie Ephron

#5. Once you permit yourself to compromise, you fail yourself.

Dean Karnazes

#6. I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society - with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.

Kenzaburo Oe

#7. Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change could also be as fast as lightning. It can't happen here could not be depended on: anything could happen anywhere, given the circumstances. By

Margaret Atwood

#8. In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#9. I get paid a lot of money to play a game with the greatest players in the world. What could be better than that?

Jim Edmonds

#10. She was only eighteen."
"Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better,

Rachel Caine

#11. A great leader is almost always a great follower for he knows what to learn and from whom.

Awdhesh Singh

#12. There is always time to die, but never time to live.

Anthony Liccione

#13. Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Bruce Catton

#14. Beware when you take on the Church of God. Others have tried and have bitten the dust.

Desmond Tutu

#15. An honest hand and a true heart may hew amiss; and the harm may be harder to bear than the work of a foe.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. Promising is the eve of giving.

George Herbert