Mark Twain On Life
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
- Orson Welles
Composers shouldn’t think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
- Howard Dietz
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
- Paul Gauguin
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
- Andy Warhol
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
- Earl Warren
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
- Emmanuel Teney
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
- Henri B. Stendhal