"I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table."

-- A. N. Wilson

#Dining Quotes #Tables Quotes #Austen Quotes

“I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Learn to manage your mind. Do not let a situation lure you into thinking negatively. Sometimes you will fail but you'll learn for the next time. Every time a negative thought comes at you ZAP IT! Replace it with positive thoughts. That takes energy but the result will be stamina, positive stamina, the necessary ingredient for success.”
“Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.”
“If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.”
“We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?”
“I can't write on the road. I have to be home. I have to be around all those rusted tractors and dilapidated fences and things like that, because it just grounds me in a way that I can't find in a hotel room.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Art deals with profound and simple moods.. ..Let us suppose that the artist - in this instance (the artist )Picabia - gets a certain impression by looking at our skyscrapers, our city, our way of life, and that he tries to reproduce it.. ..he will convey it in plastic ways on the canvas, even though we see neither skyscrapers nor city on it.”

Source : The Globe and commercial advertiser (newspaper), p. 8/10, February 20, 1913.

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