Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evgeni Plushenko

What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.

Ernst Haas

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Ernest Hemingway

There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

Evita Peron

I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

Evel Knievel

Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars

Euripides

Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.

Francis Bacon

It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Francis Bacon

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Francis Bacon

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...

Francis Bacon

We only have our nervous system to paint.

George Orwell

Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

George Carlin

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

Fernando Pessoa

I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

Fernando Pessoa

There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.

Henry Miller

Paint what you like and die happy

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Geoffrey Holder

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Frank Iero

I was feeling miserable physically, in a lot of pain to the point where it was almost crippling me, especially creatively. I decided to take that and use it as an inspiration for getting out of bed and making something again.

George Herbert

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

George Herbert

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Chris Hedges

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

Christina Rossetti

Love loves for ever, And finds a sort of joy in pain, And gives with nought to take again, And loves too well to end in vain: Is the gain small then? Love laughs at "never", Outlives our life, exceeds the span Appointed to mere mortal man: All which love is and does and can Is all in all then.

Christine Feehan

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

Christine Feehan

The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

Christine Feehan

She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known all along she felt things too deeply. She became attached. She didn't want a lover who could walk away from her, because she could never do that - love someone completely and survive intact if her left her.

Christian Wiman

I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.

Christie Brinkley

I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.