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James Whistler Quotes

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 11, 1834 - July 17, 1903

Topics

Cry Three Two Critic Would Four

The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from a tree onto a lawnmower below, the edges of this 'thing' have a certain serendipity.

Jessica Stockholder

Beautiful Tree Color Falling Paint

The act of reading a story is sacred, and people build images and all that stuff.

Michael Connelly

People Reading Story Build Act

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Sacrifice Feel You No Sense Sense

I always thought 'chick lit' meant third-person contemporary funny novels, dealing with issues of the day. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cause that's what I feel they are. But I'm quite pragmatic.

Sophie Kinsella

Funny Romantic Day Thought Feel Say

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

Robert Downey, Jr.

You Sometimes Nest Out Just Gotta

I have a beautiful collection of albums and try to frequent record stores.

Ron Cephas Jones

Beautiful Try Collection Stores

The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.

Michelle Williams

Progress Right Person Start You Want

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

New York Friends Sometimes Living

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

Best Mistakes Mistake People World

I've had lots of friends who've gone through 'Battlefield' situations in their relationships, so when I was singing the song I put myself in their position and tried to imagine what they were going through. I got so, so into it and I think you can tell.

Myself Singing Song Think Friends

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

Live Day People Anxiety Die Doing

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

Swimming Games Rowing Two Big

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