Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don't really do as adults, says cartoonist Chris Ware. We're all going around in a cloud of remembrance and anxiety, he says, and the act of drawing...
Every person who was hurt was only hurting because they loved someone.
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.' - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever...
Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. - Exodus, 21:23
They weren't a bad family. At least they loved one another, cared for one another. Most of the time anyway.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III {Act I, scene ii} Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Success, no matter how you define it, is attainable only by persuading another person-a boss, a client, a colleague, a subordinate, a friend or loved one-to give you what you want.
She closed her eyes as his full weight stretched over her. They fit together perfectly and as they clung together her woman's body felt that at last she had found the man's bones from which she'd been...
Love does not make you a fool.
Time is not something you give back
Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.
...when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.
You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
People only do to you what you let them.
Real life was not what everyone thought it was.
None of us should wait to be told what to do, or how to do it. Micromanagement kills initiative, judgment and creativity.
He's an engineer. Wu's the same. They're both technicians. They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it...
They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to...
The leader of this team of doctors was a dignified, solicitous gentleman who held one finger up directly in front of Yossarian and demanded, How many fingers do you see? Two, said Yossarian. How many...
Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.
Purpose of life is unknown, and hence way to be is hidden from the eyes of living critters. Who can say if perhaps the schizophrenics are not correct? Mister, they take a brave journey. They turn away...
Forgive yourself. Forgive others. Don't wait, Mitch. Not everyone gets the time I'm getting. Not everyone is as lucky. I
Everything man does today to be efficient, to fill the hour? Dor said. It does not satisfy. It only makes him hungry to do more. Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.He lowered his...
God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song - one same, wonderful, human song.
There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness
In the popular imagination, the American motion-picture industry still represents a kind of mechanical monster, programmed to stifle and destroy all that is interesting and worthwhile and "creative"...
This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is...
There was an old Irish saying of my nana's – she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell.
She glanced at the mobile phone on the night table and noted that it was still turned off. She decided she didn't want to hear from Maisie again. She would throw the bloody thing away. She didn't like...
And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.
They couldn't him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Dreirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
