Re: QUOTATIONS AGLORE
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Art is creating something beautiful where nothing existed before.”
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to
please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
– Chinese Proverb
“Live as if your were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”
– Gandhi
“If you hear a voice within you saying, ‘You are not a painter,’
then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
– Vincent van Gogh
“Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama
"My guess is that there aren’t a hundred top-flight professional
comedians, male and female, in the whole world. They are a much rarer
and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in
the world. But because we are laughed at, I don’t think people really
understand how essential we are to their sanity."
– Groucho Marx
( Too damn right…Groucho…befits for the Paki-Viewers )
“There’s something therapeutic about nudity.
Clothing is one of the external things about a character.
Take away the Gucci or Levi’s and we’re all the same.”
– Kevin Bacon
EVERYTHING Comes Back To Visit You In An Election.
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**Classic Quotes by Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) Russian Author **
*A corner draft fluttered the flame, and the white fever of temptation, upswept its angel wings that cast , a cruciform shadow. *
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*Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. *
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*As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. *
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*As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. *
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*Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. *
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*I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies. *
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*I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them. *
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*I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting. *
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*I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself. *