Favorite Quotes

"Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract." - Ornstein

 

"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it." - Conrad

 

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther." - Carlyle

 

"Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad." - Rossetti

 

"When things come to the worse, they generally mend." - Moodie

 

"You cannot be anything if you want to be everything." - Schechter

 

"Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil." - Bjornson

 

"To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable." - Milton

 

"Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this." - Holcroft

 

"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck." - Berlioz

 

"Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul." - Munch

 

"I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic." - Drummond

 

"Hope raises no dust." - Eluard

 

"Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe." - Bolyai

 

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." - Clarke

 

"One brave deed makes no hero." - Whittier

 

"A line is a dot that went for a walk." - Klee

 

"Acting is the ability to dream on cue." - Richardson

 

"Success is the sum of details." - Firestone

 

"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions." - Couture