John Constable Quotes

My art flatters nobody by imitation; it courts nobody by smoothness, tickles nobody by petiteness... there is no finish in nature.

John Constable

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 11, 1776 - March 31, 1837

Topics

NatureArtNobodyFinishImitation

I was never a rail-thin person.

Jessica Capshaw

PersonNever

I've had a great passion for video games for as long as I can remember. Growing up, 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time' was one of my all-time favorites. My brother and I ran up quite a bill calling the 1-900 numbers for tips on those games before the Internet provided game guides.

Megan Ellison

PassionGreatTimeBrotherGame

It's really important for me to not follow trends because I really like the idea that a wardrobe is something that's about you, it should represent who you are and how you dress.

Jeanne Damas

DressMeYouImportantFollowIdea

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

Michael J. Fox

LeaderCommunityMyselfLookPart

Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling.

Tom Petty

HairBelieveGuitarProfessionalNow

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

Mick Ralphs

TimeWifeMeWorldInternetShe

It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.

Judith Butler

PeopleLawEnemySayWillTrials

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

Jojo Moyes

LifeFamilyPeopleStoryLife Story

There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.

Anne Northup

PeopleListeningStartYouWatching

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

Phil Klay

WarYouBackAuthorityTalkCome

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

Sylvia Browne

EnoughDecideBecauseLessonsOccurs

The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.

Marquis de Lafayette

LifeConfidenceBusinessHeartPower

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