I think that to get under the surface and really appreciate the beauty of any country, one has to go there poor.
—Grace Moore, 1944
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it “the reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “artist.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1849The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.
—Aristotle, c. 322 BCEveryone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
—Gaston Bachelard, 1960The law is established from above but becomes custom below.
—Su Zhe, c. 1100I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
—Maya Angelou, 1993My people and I have come to an agreement that satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
—Frederick the Great, c. 1770It was lonesome, the leaving.
—Wetatonmi, c. 1877The most may err as grossly as the few.
—John Dryden, 1681And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
—Albert Einstein, 1929