Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Thomas Jefferson still lives.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

Your fortune stateth: You will be attacked by a beast who has the body of a wolf, the tail of a lion, and the face of Donald Duck.

Oh, sweet sorrow, the time you borrow, will you be here when i wake up tomorrow?;"Katherine Wolf

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?;"Gwynn Thomas

Can I borrow your brain?;"Professor Wolff

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

I'm sure glad my ancestors did not invent the flush toilet. Then my name would be crap. Poor Thomas Crapper.

Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, ''The world is bad enough with the Bible; what would it be without it?''

The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Broadway, such as I see it now and have seen it for twenty-five years, is a ramp that was conceived by St. Thomas Aquinas while he was yet in the womb. It was meant originally to be used only by snakes and lizards, by the horned toad and the red heron, but when the great Spanish Armada was sunk the human kind wriggled out of the ketch and slopped over, creating by a sort of foul, ignominious squirm and wiggle the cunt-like cleft that runs from the Battery south to the golf links north through the dead and wormy center of Manhattan Island.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: ''Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?''

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Thomas Jefferson -- still surv?

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, ''Candle making industry threatened''.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.