Top 41 Winsor Quotes
#1. When you talk about state of the art, that doesn't mean a damn thing. Think about it. State of the art. "This is the state of the art brush from Winsor-Newton." Yeah, but the state of the art sucks rubber donkey lungs.
Mike Royer
#2. She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended ...
Kathleen Winsor
#3. The king appeared ... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.
Kathleen Winsor
#4. A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
Justin Winsor
#5. I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
Kathleen Winsor
#7. When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of cigarettes when folded up. I bought my first one in the 1980s. It was handy to bring on trips, and I packed it into a leather pouch along with a couple of brushes, a pencil, an eraser and paper.
Susan Minot
#8. I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.
Kathleen Winsor
#9. Death was democratic. It made no choice between the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the old.
Kathleen Winsor
#10. It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.
Kathleen Winsor
#12. Edward Progers was his Majesty's Page of the Backstairs. He handled private money transactions, secret correspondence, and served in an ex-officio capacity as the King's pimp. It was a position of no mean prestige, and of considerable activity.
Kathleen Winsor
#13. Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.
Virginia Henley
#14. [Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.
Kathleen Winsor
#15. I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.
Kathleen Winsor
#16. There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.
Kathleen Winsor
#17. Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.
Kathleen Winsor
#18. It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
Kathleen Winsor
#19. The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Kathleen Winsor
#21. BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay
Tom Nissley
#22. The end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.
Kathleen Winsor
#23. There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.
Kathleen Winsor
#24. Animation should be an art ... what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade ... not an art, but a trade ... bad luck.
Winsor McCay
#25. Nemo suggested that it might be some monster giant but his papa called him a "rattlebrain" and ordered him to pacify his mama who was making elaborate plans to faint.
Winsor McCay
#26. Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.
Winsor McCay
#28. Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.
Kathleen Winsor
#29. Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.
Justin Winsor
#30. Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!
Winsor McCay
#31. Maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway
excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
Kathleen Winsor
#32. Please welcome our hometown girl, a Winsor Cougar, a world-famous recording artist. Please welcome Chanin Anne.
Tim Mettey
#33. She had never seen anyone like him before in her life. The clothes he wore, the sound of his voice, the expression in his eys, all made her feel that she had had z moomentary glimpse into another world - and she longed passionately to see it again, if only for a brief while.
Kathleen Winsor
#34. There are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.
Kathleen Winsor
#35. I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes.
Kathleen Winsor
#36. Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
Kathleen Winsor
#37. I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Edward Hopper
#39. Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.
Kathleen Winsor
#40. If you had better sense you'd have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
Kathleen Winsor
#41. Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.
Winsor McCay
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