Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

Home › Fortune Cookies › Quotations By Famous People

Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic proce
finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole....
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate. -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) U.S. noveli
My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.
-- Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) English noveli...
The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
-- Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) English noveli...
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad
and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. -- Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) English noveli...
In reality, killing time Is only the name for another of the multifarious ways By which Time kills us.
-- Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) English noveli...
It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time. -- Osbert Sitwell (1892-1969) English noveli
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise. -- Red Skelto
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance.
It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor....

< previous

231

232
233
234
235
236
237
238
239
240
355
next >