"If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than that of the artist."

-- Jean-Georges Noverre

#Art Quotes #Character Quotes #Expression Quotes

“The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.”
“I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.”

Source : "The Most Utterly Comprehensive List Of Exemplary Poeticisms — Be they great, inadvertent, or unsound — As Uttered by our most Esteemed Exemplars And Guardians of Popular Culture". Article by John Reed, logger.believermag.com. November 26, 2014.
“It's hard to fit everything in and still have episodic television.”
“God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.”
“What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.”
“Ask yourself what you could do to make situations less difficult. Do it, even if you think you shouldn't have to.”
“He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”

Source : John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1859). “The complete poetical works of John Milton: together with a life of the author”
“Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.”

Source : Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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