Walter Pater Quotes

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Walter Pater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894

Topics

ArtQualityMomentsYouNothing

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

Jody Watley

BusinessFearlessYouAnything

I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the people of Florida what's right for them. It's arrogant and irresponsible.

Jeff Miller

PeopleThinkDownRightFlorida

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

Stephanie Beacham

ArtMeDoctorRoyalDeafWithin

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.

Steven Seagal

PoliticsEthicsMoralsDirtyDignity

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

MeFreeBottleRatherThanFront

When I visited Guantanamo Bay several years ago, I met a team of psychiatrists treating the detainees. When I asked how they distinguished between, say, schizophrenia or bipolarity and a bedrock religious commitment to holy war, they couldn't answer.

Monica Crowley

CommitmentWarTeamSayYearsHoly

The lusts of this world leads us to fulfill our carnal need to be accepted, but as children of God we are already accepted by a Heavenly Father who is over and above all things.

Monica Johnson

FatherGodChildrenWorldNeedOver

My sympathies are Left. On paper and in the soul. But not in my heart or my guts.

Louis MacNeice

HeartSoulPaperLeftGuts

I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.

Jason Calacanis

MeDreamEntrepreneurDeserveNever

I like to carry a nice bag because then I can wear t-shirts and jeans all the time!

Christa Miller

TimeBagI CanNiceJeansCarry

There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.

Mark Frost

WorldStoryYouPerfectKnowRoom

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

Marie Curie

ProgressEasyWayTaughtSwiftNor

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