Quotes of Stain - somelinesforyou

“ Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love. ”

- Aristotle

“ When I bring to you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ War among men defiles this world. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. ”

- Maxwell Bodenheim

“ The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. ”

- Henry Fielding

“ But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ”

- Alan Watts

“ The most infallible mark of ignorance is superstition. ”

- Stanislaus

“ Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. ”

- Oliver Cromwell

“ For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ”

- Maxwell Bodenheim

“ A zebra does not change its spots. ”

- Al Gore

“ My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ”

- Olivier Messiaen

“ They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'. ”

- Robert Parker

“ It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important. ”

- Vincent van Gogh

“ Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks. ”

- Buddha

“ One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go. ”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

“ A disgrace. ”

- Nancy Pelosi

“ Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. ”

- Henry Rollins

“ Ink smears, as thoughts sometimes do. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. ”

- Robert Bridges

“ Colors speak all languages. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ I kind of do the drawing with the painting in mind, but it's very hard to guess at a size or a color and all the colors around it and what it will really look like. ”

- Roy Lichtenstein

“ Contractors always take soil borings to determine any problems with the soil. ”

- Ed Vargo

“ Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. ”

- Virgil

“ I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ It won't taint (his memory). Leave it alone. ”

- Dave Winfield

“ I paint as if I were Rothschild. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast. ”

- John Huston

“ For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. ”

- Sylvia Plath

“ It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. ”

- Jonathan Swift
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