"My priciple is, the artist shall put forth, humbly & lovingly, without bitterness, the very best & highest that is within him,utterly regardless of contemporary criticism."

-- Sidney Lanier

#Artist Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Bitterness Quotes

“Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.”

Source : William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.177, Macmillan
“To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“Funny,â€™ Will said, as they picked their way through. â€˜Things are absolutely awful and yet people look much happier than usual. Look at them all. Bubbling.â€™ â€˜They are English,â€™ Merriman said. â€˜Quite right,â€™ said Willâ€™s father. â€˜Splendid in adversity, tedious when safe. Never content, in fact. Weâ€™re an odd lotâ€¦.”
“I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I knew from previous books not to count on anything in terms of sales. My first novel - -The Raven's Bride, about Sam Houston's disastrous first marriage - -sold well and got attention, but my second book - -Promised Lands, about the Texas Revolution - -didn't.”

Source : Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com
“If you donâ€™t jump, the wings never come.”
“Learn the lesson of your pain”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

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