“ I could flatter myself in thinking our photographs brought Roosevelt in in '36 overwhelmingly. But beyond that you can't measure it. ”
- Ben Shahn- Copy
- 731
“ Some men flee from temptation, but others just crawl away from it hoping it will overtake them. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 3K
“ She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 620
“ Well-matured and well-disciplined talent is always sure of a market, provided it exerts itself; but it must not cower at home and expect to be sought for. There is a good deal of cant, too, in the whining about the success of forward and impudent men, while men of retiring worth are passed over with neglect… ”
- Washington Irving- Copy
- 1.1K
“ You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so. ”
- William Morris Hunt- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being… Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe. ”
- Madonna Ciccone- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me. ”
- Ian Hart- Copy
- 542
“ When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe. ”
- Benjamin Cohen- Copy
- 3.5K
“ When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that? ”
- Cynthia Payne- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both. ”
- Ben Hecht- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast. ”
- George William Russell- Copy
- 1.1K
“ An individual dies... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 2.7K
“ As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows proud to see us truckle under it; she will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against us. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
- 3.7K
“ And honeysuckle loved to crawl Up the low crag and ruin'd wall. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
- 616
“ I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet. ”
- Charles Bradlaugh- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? ”
- Irwin Shaw- Copy
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