Art Quotes
Polygamist Jamaat-e-Islami's new patner is India.
Sadia Sheikh
[http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang/ Article in The Idler Magazine] - broken link, see: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718214232/http://idler.co.uk/idle-idols/idle-idols-lin-yutang Internet Archive copy] instead
Lin Yutang
Like the poet Po Chüyi, the Chinese scholar "utilized Confucianism to order his conduct, utilized Buddhism to cleanse his mind, and then utilized history, paintings, mountains, rivers, wine, music and song to soothe his spirit.
Bai Juyi
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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
Immanuel Kant
Cushing, Nathan (17 September 2014). [http://rvanews.com/entertainment/south-african-artist-painting-commissioned-murals-at-vmfa/116911 "South African artist painting commissioned murals at VMFA]". RVA News. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
Esther Mahlangu
The Tale of Genji in particular is the highest pinnacle of Japanese literature. Even down to our day there has not been a piece of fiction to compare with it. That such a modern work should have been written in the eleventh century is a miracle, and as a miracle the work is widely known abroad.
Yasunari Kawabata
Two years after launching The Huffington Post I was exhausted, burnt out. The feeling many of us have. I collapsed from exhaustion and on the way down I hit my head on the desk, broke my cheekbone and got four stitches on my right eye. And it started me on this journey of questioning what success is
Arianna Huffington
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The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers...but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!
George Carlin
You left a hole wide enough for guys like him to randomly get shot into the wrong dimension. Now I'm stuck putting everybody back where they belong before all of time and space collapses! And don't even get me started on Doctor Strange and the little nerd on Earth-199999!
Margo Jefferson
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When he found the power to express what was in his heart, he found the love of a woman.
Renato Russo
[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049584/al-Maarri Profile in Encyclopædia Britannica]
Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Tishani Doshi
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Imperceptible
It withers in the world,
This flower-like human heart.
Zeami Motokiyo
Although she was primarily a particle theorist, her most important work may well be her contribution to our understanding of superconductivity. She was a trailblazer for and, in her retirement, led the effort to chronicle the contributions of women to physics in the 20th century.
Émilie du Châtelet
(Driving through a Picaso painting) Take that Guernica!
Margo Albert
?What many find interesting about my artworks is that although they are based on traditional Ndebele designs, they are still very modern and current. They can fit into a home or office anywhere in the world and don’t appear dated.”
Esther Mahlangu