Marion Davies famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.
Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree - and there will be one.
If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

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