"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."

-- Bill Griffith

#Artist Quotes #Problem Quotes #Doing Good Quotes

“The jury had never been allowed to see any evidence that Laetrile actually worked. (Yes Virginia, they can bury medical breakthroughs in court this way also.) Dr. Kowan...was...age 70...”
“How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!”

Source : "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.
“Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Potter's Field”, p.62, Head of Zeus
“You look at these past predictions like there's only a market in the world for five computers [as allegedly said by IBM founder Thomas Watson] and you realize it's not a good idea to predict too far into the future.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.”
“"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."”
“If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.”
“If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.”

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