Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jamie Wyeth

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

Jonathan Simon

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Greg Collins

The whole thing is to paint me as anti-business and no-growth,

Brett Hoebel

You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - its not pleasant, its painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.

Brandon Sanderson

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Ashton Kutcher

Having someone to share not only the joy of life, but the pain of life... that's been sort of the biggest lesson of marriage. I can never get angry or upset with my partner because they're just a part of me.

Ayn Rand

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Ayn Rand

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

Granth Sahib

Now my joys are few, and my pains are many. In utter agony, I pass my life.

C. S. Lewis

All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Charles Spurgeon

Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Elbert Hubbard

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Albert Einstein

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

Ali Smith

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Luiz Scolari

Thanks for everything and we will see you at the World Cup.

Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Miley Cyrus

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Abraham Maslow

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Alicia Silverstone

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Ann Voskamp

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

Ann Voskamp

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.