"I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom."

-- Michelangelo

#Art Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.”

Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”
“The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.”
“I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.”

Source : "'American Idol' vets Bo Brice, Constantine Maroulis can't stop rocking'" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. May 24, 2007.
“In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.”
“We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.”

Source : Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.114, Random House
“Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler 's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.”
“The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.”
“People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.”

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