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By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move the observer through the painting.
One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.
You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.
I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.
I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.
Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.
I honestly can't think of many more truly romantic gestures than a really well-thought-through prenuptial agreement.
Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.
Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.
Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness.
You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. So create who and what you are, and then experience that.
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.
The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck.
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.
We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.
You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.
I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.
Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.
You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.
One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.
Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.
I stared at myself in the mirror. Okay, just ugh. I had to get some sleep tonight - the bags under my eyes had bags.
Typically, in the last round of open tournaments the level of play is markedly lower, the number of blunders higher.
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student.
The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.
I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked.
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association.
The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts.
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'
The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.
What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.
Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.
When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.
If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive.