What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.
- Edward Abbey
The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.
- Amit Abraham
Ohmygod," Jade whispered, panicked. She grabbed my arm and yanked, almost knocking me off balance. "Something moved in those bushes."
I shoved her off, pointed to the ground, and smiled. From under the bush, long ears attached to a tiny brown speckles head peeked out. "Yeah. That bunny is a Denazen suit in disguise. Where do you suppose he's hiding his gun? Or maybe he doesn't need one. Maybe he's a martial arts master trained in the art of kickassery.
- Jus Accardo
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
- Dean Acheson
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
- Franklin P Jones
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
- William Adams
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
- Konrad Adenauer
I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
- Veronica Roth
She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.
- Veronica Roth
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.
- Paulo Coelho
- Shugendo means: "the way of the art of accumulating experience" - he replied, revealing that his interests go beyond the variety of insects in the region - By disciplining one's body to accept everything nature has to offer; in this way you will also educate your soul for that which God has to offer.
- Paulo Coelho
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
- Horatio Alger
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
- Paul Valery
Nature is the art of God.
- Dante Alighieri
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
- Jeanjacques Annaud
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
- Thomas Jefferson
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
- Thomas Jefferson
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
- Plato
In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men? What art is more difficult to learn? But what art is more important to us?
- Plato
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Plato
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
- Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
- Machado De Assis
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
- Marcus Aurelius
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life
- Paul Auster
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
- Walter Bagehot
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
- Fredrik Bajer
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
- Arthur Balfour
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- Oscar Wilde
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
- Oscar Wilde
I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.
- Carlos Barrios
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
- Roland Barthes
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
- Bernard Baruch
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
- Jean Dominique Bauby
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
- Vicki Baum
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
- Diogenes Of Sinope
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
- E T Bell
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
- John Steinbeck
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
- Annette Bening
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
- Walter Benjamin
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- Walter Benjamin
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.
- John Berger
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
- John Desmond Bernal
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
- Ambrose Bierce
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
- Joe Biden
--Even losing you (a joking voice, a gesture/ I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
- Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
- Elizabeth Bishop
Politics is the art of the possible.
- Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the next best.
- Otto Von Bismarck
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- Tony Blair
Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.
- Tony Blair
Dr Sass...maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words 'straight', 'square', and 'flat' the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture
- Karen Blixen
The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
- Gustave Le Bon
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
- William Shakespeare
Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
- William Shakespeare
The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.
- William Shakespeare
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral...
- Jorge Luis Borges
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- Samuel Johnson
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- Samuel Johnson
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
- Ray Bradbury
Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.
- Ray Bradbury
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
- Alain De Botton
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
- Madeleine L Engle
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
- James H Breasted
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
- Bertolt Brecht
When we changed the channel from violent television to tamer fare, kids just ended up learning the advanced skills of clique formation, friendship withdrawal, and the art of the insult.
- Po Bronson
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- Thomas Browne
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
- George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
- Robert Frost
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
- Ellen Burstyn
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
- Kofi Busia
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Gloria Naylor
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
- Paracelsus
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
- William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- William Hazlitt
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
- William Hazlitt
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
- Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
- Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- Voltaire
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
- Carly Fiorina
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The art of politics is knowing what to do next.
- James P Cannon
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
- Georg Cantor
Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the house. Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they'd done a good job.
- Truman Capote
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
- Georges Carpentier
I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).
- Ally Carter
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.
- Raymond Chandler
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
- Pablo Casals
The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.
- Carlos Castaneda
Any first rate novel or story must have in it the strength of a dozen fairly good stories that have been sacrificed to it. A good workman can't be a cheap workman; he can't be stingy about wasting material, and he cannot compromise. Excerpt taken from On the Art of Fiction by Willa Cather circa 1920.
- Willa Cather
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
- Camillo Di Cavour
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
- Nicolas Chamfort
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
- Nicolas Chamfort
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
- Adelbert Von Chamisso
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- Bertrand Russell
Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid.
- Bertrand Russell
Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated..
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
- Jacques Chirac
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
- Luc De Clapiers
Patience is the art of hoping.
- Luc De Clapiers
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
- Kinky Friedman
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
- Karl Von Clausewitz
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
- Hillary Clinton
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
- Harold Coffin
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
- Hunter S Thompson
I have found my voice again and the art of using it..
- Colette
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
- Will Durant
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
- Cyril Connolly
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
- F M Cornford
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
- Frances Cornford
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
- Donald Knuth
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
- George Crumb
What I have just described is the art of gratitude. Every time that we say "thank you" we are not only acknowledging that someone has done something for us, we are also sprinkling a bit of light into this person's life.
- Celso Cukierkorn
And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
- Virginia Woolf
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
- Virginia Woolf
The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
- Virginia Woolf
Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.
- Roald Dahl
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
- Richard M Daley
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.
- Mike Davidson
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
- Don Delillo
The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
- Don Delillo
Alfonse invested everything he did with a sense of all-consuming purpose. He knew four languages, had photographic memory, did complex mathematics in his head. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
- Don Delillo
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. To plot, to take aim at something, to shape time and space. This is how we advance the art of human consciousness. (WN 291-2)
- Don Delillo
I never heard that it had been anybody's business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much.
- Charles Dickens
The course of Nature is the art of God.
- Edward Young
I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
- Ani Difranco
I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books... so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.
- Annie Dillard
Better yet - I'll buy him a dildo with his own money, send it to him, and tell him to go fuck himself
from The Art of Submission by Ella Dominguez
- Ella Dominguez
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
- Mark Van Doren
I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.
- Scott Douglas
I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The art of one's own time tends to be formidable... because we have to learn how and where to take hold of it, what response is being asked of us, before we can get involved. It's truly new, and therefore truly a bit frightening.
- Ursula K Le Guin
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
- Isadora Duncan
...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life... For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
- Henry Miller
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
- Max Eastman
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
- Henry James
A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression" - from "The Art of Fiction
- Henry James
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
- Umberto Eco
Translation is the art of failure.
- Umberto Eco
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
- Gretel Ehrlich
The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
- E F Schumacher
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
- Carmen Electra
She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.
- John Irving
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
- Elizabeth I Tudor
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
- Havelock Ellis
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- Havelock Ellis
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
- Albert Ellis
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
- Don Marquis
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
- Anne Enright
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
- Epicurus
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
- Perry Farrell
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
- Douglas Horton
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else's, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.
- Sebastian Faulks
...when you are constantly prevailing upon the kindness of strangers-as a hitchhiker must-it keeps you in a positive frame of mind. Call it Zen and the Art of Hitchhiking. The Way of the Lift. The chrysanthemum and the Thumb. Heady on beer and the sound of my own voice, the aphorisms spilled out unchecked.
- Will Ferguson
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.
- Miguel Ferrer
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
- Nelson Mandela
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
- Minnie Estelle Miller
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
- Victor Hugo
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
- Dario Fo
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
- Malcolm Forbes
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
- Emmet Fox
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
- Viktor E Frankl
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
- Ralph Richardson
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
- Ralph Richardson
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
- David Frost
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
- Stephen Fry
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R Buckminster Fuller
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. ... Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
- Jostein Gaarder
That's not precisely what I had in mind.
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
- Diana Gabaldon
They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You'd miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along.
- Neil Gaiman
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Edward Abbey
The art of appreciation begins with self appreciation.
- Amit Abraham
Ohmygod," Jade whispered, panicked. She grabbed my arm and yanked, almost knocking me off balance. "Something moved in those bushes."
I shoved her off, pointed to the ground, and smiled. From under the bush, long ears attached to a tiny brown speckles head peeked out. "Yeah. That bunny is a Denazen suit in disguise. Where do you suppose he's hiding his gun? Or maybe he doesn't need one. Maybe he's a martial arts master trained in the art of kickassery.
- Jus Accardo
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
- Dean Acheson
Originality is the art of concealing your source.
- Franklin P Jones
Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.
- William Adams
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
- Konrad Adenauer
I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.
- Veronica Roth
She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.
- Veronica Roth
Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing it. They went to work, came back, complained about everything, insulted their wife or were insulted by her, felt wretched, but were, nonetheless, tightly bound to their own unhappiness, not realizing that all it would take was a single gesture, a final goodbye, to free them from that oppression.
- Paulo Coelho
- Shugendo means: "the way of the art of accumulating experience" - he replied, revealing that his interests go beyond the variety of insects in the region - By disciplining one's body to accept everything nature has to offer; in this way you will also educate your soul for that which God has to offer.
- Paulo Coelho
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
- Horatio Alger
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
- Paul Valery
Nature is the art of God.
- Dante Alighieri
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
- Jeanjacques Annaud
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
- Thomas Jefferson
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
- Thomas Jefferson
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
- Plato
In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men? What art is more difficult to learn? But what art is more important to us?
- Plato
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
- Plato
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
- Aristotle
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
- Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle
He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.
- Machado De Assis
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
- Marcus Aurelius
In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life
- Paul Auster
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
- Walter Bagehot
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
- Fredrik Bajer
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
- Arthur Balfour
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- Oscar Wilde
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
- Oscar Wilde
I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.
- Carlos Barrios
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
- Roland Barthes
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
- Bernard Baruch
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
- Jean Dominique Bauby
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
- Vicki Baum
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
- Diogenes Of Sinope
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
- E T Bell
Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.
- John Steinbeck
I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
- Annette Bening
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
- Walter Benjamin
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
- Walter Benjamin
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.
- John Berger
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
- John Desmond Bernal
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
- Ambrose Bierce
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
- Ambrose Bierce
To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
- Joe Biden
--Even losing you (a joking voice, a gesture/ I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
- Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
- Elizabeth Bishop
Politics is the art of the possible.
- Otto Von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the next best.
- Otto Von Bismarck
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- Tony Blair
Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go.
- Tony Blair
Dr Sass...maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words 'straight', 'square', and 'flat' the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture
- Karen Blixen
The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.
- Gustave Le Bon
When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
- William Shakespeare
Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
- William Shakespeare
The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.
- William Shakespeare
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral...
- Jorge Luis Borges
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
- Samuel Johnson
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- Samuel Johnson
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
- Ray Bradbury
Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible.
- Ray Bradbury
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
- Alain De Botton
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
- Madeleine L Engle
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
- James H Breasted
All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.
- Bertolt Brecht
When we changed the channel from violent television to tamer fare, kids just ended up learning the advanced skills of clique formation, friendship withdrawal, and the art of the insult.
- Po Bronson
All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
- Thomas Browne
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
- George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
- Robert Frost
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.
- Ellen Burstyn
Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies.
- Kofi Busia
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
- Gloria Naylor
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
- Samuel Butler
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
- Paracelsus
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
- William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- William Hazlitt
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
- William Hazlitt
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire
Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
- Voltaire
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
- Voltaire
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
- Voltaire
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
- Carly Fiorina
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Gilbert K Chesterton
The art of politics is knowing what to do next.
- James P Cannon
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
- Georg Cantor
Royal summoned mourners. They came from the village, from the neighboring hills and, wailing like dogs at midnight, laid siege to the house. Old women beat their heads against the walls, moaning men prostrated themselves: it was the art of sorrow, and those who best mimicked grief were much admired. After the funeral everyone went away, satisfied that they'd done a good job.
- Truman Capote
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.
- Georges Carpentier
I know in the spy movies it always looks really cool when the operative goes from a maid's uniform to a slinky, sexy, ballgown in the amount of time it takes an elevator to climb three floors. Well, I don't know how it is for TV spies, but I can tell you that even with Velcro, the art of the quick change is one that must take a lot of practice (not to mention better lighting than one is likely to find in a tunnel that was once part of the underground railroad).
- Ally Carter
I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.
- Raymond Chandler
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
- Pablo Casals
The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.
- Carlos Castaneda
Any first rate novel or story must have in it the strength of a dozen fairly good stories that have been sacrificed to it. A good workman can't be a cheap workman; he can't be stingy about wasting material, and he cannot compromise. Excerpt taken from On the Art of Fiction by Willa Cather circa 1920.
- Willa Cather
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
- Camillo Di Cavour
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
- Nicolas Chamfort
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
- Nicolas Chamfort
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
- Adelbert Von Chamisso
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- Bertrand Russell
Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid.
- Bertrand Russell
Practice radical humility. He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated..
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
- Jacques Chirac
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
- Luc De Clapiers
Patience is the art of hoping.
- Luc De Clapiers
The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship
- Kinky Friedman
Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
- Karl Von Clausewitz
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
- Hillary Clinton
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
- Harold Coffin
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
- Hunter S Thompson
I have found my voice again and the art of using it..
- Colette
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
- Will Durant
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
- Cyril Connolly
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
- F M Cornford
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
- Frances Cornford
People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
- Donald Knuth
If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.
- George Crumb
What I have just described is the art of gratitude. Every time that we say "thank you" we are not only acknowledging that someone has done something for us, we are also sprinkling a bit of light into this person's life.
- Celso Cukierkorn
And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
- Virginia Woolf
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
- Virginia Woolf
The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.
- Virginia Woolf
Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.
- Roald Dahl
The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.
- Richard M Daley
You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.
- Mike Davidson
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
- Don Delillo
The art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way.
- Don Delillo
Alfonse invested everything he did with a sense of all-consuming purpose. He knew four languages, had photographic memory, did complex mathematics in his head. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.
- Don Delillo
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not. To plot, to take aim at something, to shape time and space. This is how we advance the art of human consciousness. (WN 291-2)
- Don Delillo
I never heard that it had been anybody's business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much.
- Charles Dickens
The course of Nature is the art of God.
- Edward Young
I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
- Ani Difranco
I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet I want to be able to see the represented world through it. I admire artists who succeed in dividing my attention more or less evenly between the world of their books and the art of their books... so that a reader may study the work with pleasure as well as the world that it describes.
- Annie Dillard
Better yet - I'll buy him a dildo with his own money, send it to him, and tell him to go fuck himself
from The Art of Submission by Ella Dominguez
- Ella Dominguez
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
- Mark Van Doren
I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic.
- Scott Douglas
I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
The art of one's own time tends to be formidable... because we have to learn how and where to take hold of it, what response is being asked of us, before we can get involved. It's truly new, and therefore truly a bit frightening.
- Ursula K Le Guin
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
- Isadora Duncan
...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence of a way of life, which, if it is not crazy is certainly different from the accepted way of life... For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.
- Henry Miller
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
- Max Eastman
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
- Henry James
A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression" - from "The Art of Fiction
- Henry James
It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.
- Umberto Eco
Translation is the art of failure.
- Umberto Eco
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
- Gretel Ehrlich
The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
- E F Schumacher
People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.
- Carmen Electra
She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.
- John Irving
It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
- Elizabeth I Tudor
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
- Havelock Ellis
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- Havelock Ellis
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
- Albert Ellis
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.
- Don Marquis
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
- Anne Enright
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
- Epicurus
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
- Ludwig Erhard
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display and demonstration, with technical savvy, using cell phones and computers.
- Perry Farrell
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
- Douglas Horton
From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else's, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.
- Sebastian Faulks
...when you are constantly prevailing upon the kindness of strangers-as a hitchhiker must-it keeps you in a positive frame of mind. Call it Zen and the Art of Hitchhiking. The Way of the Lift. The chrysanthemum and the Thumb. Heady on beer and the sound of my own voice, the aphorisms spilled out unchecked.
- Will Ferguson
We were given clear concrete tools. The course did a great job demystifying the art of fiction writing and fostering confidence. The instructor brought complex concepts down to earth. I will miss coming here every week.
- Miguel Ferrer
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
- Nelson Mandela
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Gustave Flaubert
- Minnie Estelle Miller
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
- Victor Hugo
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
- Dario Fo
Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
- Malcolm Forbes
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
- Emmet Fox
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
- Viktor E Frankl
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
- Ralph Richardson
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
- Ralph Richardson
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
- David Frost
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
- Stephen Fry
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R Buckminster Fuller
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. ... Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.
- Jostein Gaarder
That's not precisely what I had in mind.
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
- Diana Gabaldon
They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You'd miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along.
- Neil Gaiman
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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