"If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?"

-- David Lee Roth

#Art Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Tea Quotes

“I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write”
“No matter what the level of funding or success may be, there's always money missing, and you still want to have a gorgeous image, an endless cast and a flawless rendering.”
“There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.”
“Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.”

Source : Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.15
“President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician.”
“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”

Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949). Usually attributed to Dewar, but it should be noted that the line "mind like parachute - only function when open!" appears in the 1936 film Charlie Chan at the Circus (screenplay by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan).
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (2016). “Best Fairy Tales”, p.129, Pan Macmillan
“I was not really as good as I should have been.”

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