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threeplusfire) wrote2001-05-14 11:50 am
threeplusfire) wrote2001-05-14 11:50 am
random quotes
"We had no use for the policy of the Gospels, 'if someone slaps you, just turn the other cheek.' We had shown that anyone who slapped us on our cheek would get his head kicked off."
- Nikita Khrushchev
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
- Edith Wharton
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
- Aldous Huxley
"An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished."
- John Singer Sargent
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
- Hans Hofmann
- Nikita Khrushchev
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
- Edith Wharton
"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
- Aldous Huxley
"An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished."
- John Singer Sargent
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
- Hans Hofmann