Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is like having a bad mistress who spends and spends and it's never enough ... I tell myself that even if a tolerable study comes out of it from time to time, it would have been cheaper to buy it from somebody else.

Robertson Davies

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

William Lilly

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Paul Gauguin

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.

Prince Charles

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

Terry Pratchett

His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.

Oskar Werner

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

John B. S. Haldane

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

Gayle Forman

Obey the muse, Liz said. She's a fickle mistress.

Robin Quivers

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Sharon Olds

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Paul McCartney

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

John Berger

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Mahatma Gandhi

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

Peter Schiff

Keynesians are to economics what witch doctors are to medicine.

Brian Blair

is not going to be a witch hunt; it's a fact-finding mission.

Thomas Browne

For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches.

Terry Pratchett

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Christine O'Donnell

I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.

J. K. Rowling

No witch has ever claimed to own the Elder Wand. Make of that what you will.