"To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist."

-- Jacques-Louis David

#Artist Quotes #Giving Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.”
“Is the price of sin something that can be paid off like a debt?”
“So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story that you really dig, but there's no part that you're interested in. Sometimes you read a story and you say, "I could do that. I've never done that before. I could do play that part.”
“I read, therefore, I matter.”

Source : Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella (2015). “Truly Funny Stories Vol. 1: Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog and My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space”, p.634, St. Martin's Press
“How is a magician to exist without books? Let someone explain that to me. It is like asking a politician to achieve high office without the benefit of bribes or patronage.”
“Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.”
“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”
“If wishes had wings, sheep would fly.”

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