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“No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.”
Source : "Thackeray and his Novels" by William Makepeace Thackeray, Blackwood's Mag, January 1854.
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“Plastic shoes are to the shoe world what fast food is to fine cuisine.”
Source : Mimi Pond (1985). “Shoes never lie”, Berkley Pub Group
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“There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.”
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“All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.”
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“Old and sick, more than one hundred years Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains A cloth covered phantom watching the years flow by Why envy people with clever ways of living?”
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“I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.”
Source : Franz Kline (1994). “Franz Kline: Art and the structure of identity”, Gingko Pr Inc
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“My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.”