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Orson Welles Quotes

Posted on October 16, 2011 by

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. – Orson Welles Quotes

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong. – Orson Welles Quotes

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. – Orson Welles Quotes

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. – Orson Welles Quotes

Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. – Orson Welles Quotes

Criminals are never very amusing. It’s because they’re failures. Those who make real money aren’t counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem. – Orson Welles Quotes

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else. – Orson Welles Quotes

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. – Orson Welles Quotes

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that’s printed about him. – Orson Welles Quotes

Everybody denies I am a genius – but nobody ever called me one! – Orson Welles Quotes

Fake is as old as the Eden tree. – Orson Welles Quotes

Gluttony is not a secret vice. – Orson Welles Quotes

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. – Orson Welles Quotes

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don’t think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. – Orson Welles Quotes

I don’t pray because I don’t want to bore God. – Orson Welles Quotes

I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. – Orson Welles Quotes

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I’m pretty careful to lose most of them. – Orson Welles Quotes

I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can’t stop eating peanuts. – Orson Welles Quotes

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. – Orson Welles Quotes

I have an unfortunate personality. – Orson Welles Quotes

15 Change Quotes

Posted on July 9, 2011 by

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts

You have to fight a battle more than once to win it. – Margaret Thatcher

When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen. Either there will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. – Patrick Overton

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. – Maya Angelou

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein

So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. – Marilyn Monroe

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. –Maya Angelou

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. – Harrison Ford

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett

Stupidity Quotes

Posted on May 26, 2011 by

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.” – Albert Einstein

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.” –Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.” – Bill Davidsen

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” –Bertrand Russell

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.” – Frank Leah

“There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one’s own industry or by the stupidity of others.” – Jean de la Bruyere

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” –Thomas Szasz

“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” – Unknown

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” –Bertrand Russell

“Stupidity has a certain charm – ignorance does not” – Frank Zappa

“It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.” – George Bernard Shaw

Top 20 Mark Twain Quotes

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

Mark Twain is one of my favorites writers. In my point of view, he was a genius, like many others on this site. Let me share with you some great Mark Twain Quotes.

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain

“All generalizations are false, including this one.” – Mark Twain

“A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation” – Mark Twain

“It is easier to stay out than get out.” – Mark Twain

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become” – Mark Twain

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first” – Mark Twain

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore” – Mark Twain

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” – Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear” – Mark Twain

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.” – Mark Twain

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” – Mark Twain

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” – Mark Twain

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain

“Whatever you say, say it with conviction” – Mark Twain

Everyone is a genius

Posted on April 17, 2011 by

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

Top 10 Famous Quotes

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

1. “I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details.” – Albert Einstein

2. “100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in.” – Wayne Gretzky

3. “An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – M.K. Gandhi

4. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Dr. Napoleon Hill

5. “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

6. “You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

7. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

8. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain

9. “Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

10. “I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.” – Blaise Pascal

Bonus:

11. “Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice

12. “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

Amazing Quotes

Posted on February 6, 2011 by

I love quotes, like you do. If you don’t love quotes, I don’t know what are you doing here. I’m joking, of course. You maybe like quotes and that’s all. I want to share with you all types of quotes (you can see this just by reading this site’s description). Amazing quotes are new for this blog, but I hope you love them like I do. Let’s get started.

“It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.” – Shirley MacLaine

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” – Author Unknown

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain

“There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.” – Harold Stephens

“Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” – Author Unknown

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” – Barry LePatner

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.” – Noel Coward

“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.” – Don Herold

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” – Mark Twain

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

Awesome, right? But that’s not all I’ve got. Today I will post two or three articles with amazing quotes. Just wait :)

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Paul Cezanne Quotes

Posted on January 19, 2011January 19, 2011 by

Today we share Paul Cezanne Quotes, celebrating him in our own way :)

A puny body weakens the soul.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I’m every inch a painter.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.

Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

I allow no one to touch me.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.

I have sworn to die painting.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.