Georgia O Keeffe Famous Quotes
"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment."
"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught."
Georgia O Keeffe Quotations
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
Mark Twain
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Horace
"Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different."
George Santayana
This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
"I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day"
David Grayson
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice Walker
"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again."
Evelyn Underhill
"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."
Arab Proverb
"It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies."
Samuel Butler