Quotes I Like
"I'm as pure as the driven slush." -Tallulah Bankhead
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." -Robert Frost
"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello. Can't work today, still queer.'" -Robin Tyler
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution." -Mae West
"Beauty, of whatever kind, invariably excites the human soul to tears." -Edgar Allan Poe
"Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them." -David Hume
"The best and most beautiful thing in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart." -Helen Keller
"You must do the things you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?" -Lily Tomlin
"Character develops itself in the stream of life." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will." -Willem De Kooning
"Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset." -Ann Landers
"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness." -George Jean Nathan
"A man's kiss is his signature." -Mae West
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill
"Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith." -Thomas Carlyle
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist." -Oscar Wilde
"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy." -Bob Hope
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." -Helen Keller
"Love is being stupid together." -Paul Valery
"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man." -Loren Eiseley
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love." -Henri B. Stendhal
"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Mohandas Gandhi
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." -Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The mystery is that it's a language for something that has no language; it's an expression for something that just can't be expressed. But it *is* expressed. Just the existence of music is totally audacious." -Jeff Buckley (about music).
"An artist isn't separate from a person who isn't or doesn't feel they're an artist. There's artistry in human beings; it's just a human function. I find answers from music all the time. But because I most identify with music as a way of expressing myself, I just find most of my answers there. Other people find it through painting or art or teaching or murder." -Jeff Buckley
"I would be completely insane. Or I'd take up sculpture, and if I didn't have sculpture I'd take up screenplays, and if I didn't have that I'd take up something else. Anything artistic. But music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that it's the best for me. It just gets into the bloodstream so quickly, for no reason at all. You can close your heart, and you can sleep even with your eyes closed, but you can never close your ears." -Jeff Buckley (if he didn't play music)
"Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very greatly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly; it keeps you from destroying things too foolishly; it sort of keeps you alive and keeps you open for more understanding." -Jeff Buckley
"Absense is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great." -Bussy-Rabutin
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