"A painter's hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true."

-- Dacia Maraini

#Art Quotes #Memories Quotes #Men Quotes

“Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.”

Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press
“I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.”
“Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.”

Source : Kathi Appelt (2012). “The Underneath”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
“But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.”
“Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.”
“Afterwards I said Chris Webber was going to leave as a free agent and Sacramento would go back to expansionism.”
“What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out? Wouldn't your every movement tell the story? In time you would be so eloquent that just to gaze upon you would reveal it all. And so it is with these silent green lives.”
“As a matter of fact if you think about [Donald Trump press conference after visit to Mexico], that could have been may be one of the Gang of Eight, the bipartisan group that in the Senate some years ago passed a bill that said border security. It said thousands of new border guards to deal with the porous border. It talked about a pathway to legalization for the 11 or 12 million undocumented that live in this country.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com

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