Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.

Charles Caleb Colton

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

Charles Caleb Colton

Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.

Charles Caleb Colton

The cynic who twitted Aristippus by observing that the philosopher who could dine on herbs might despise the company of a king, was well replied to by Aristippus, when he remarked that the philosopher who could enjoy the company or a king might also despise a dinner of herbs.

Charles Spurgeon

It has been well said that if a great king should bring us a great heap of gold, and bid us take as much as we could count in a day, we should make a long day of it; but to win souls is far nobler work. How is it that we so soon withdraw from it?

Charles Spurgeon

See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed.

Charles Spurgeon

You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.

Alan Moore

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

Alan Moore

Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent To blow up the King and Parli’ment. Three-score barrels of powder below To prove old England’s overthrow; By God’s providence he was catch’d With a dark lantern and burning match. Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring. Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Bill Dudley

Since it is the tightness of monetary policy you have to worry about in terms of implications for the economy, not the shape of the yield curve, per se, it should tell you not to be particularly nervous about the outlook.

Mike Schussler

To say what the monetary value is at this stage is impossible, but it is probably running into the millions.

Sharon Stark

I think they're in trouble now if it doesn't work. There is not much more monetary stimulus that they can add.

Carole Theriault

We are already seeing a transformation, where virus writing is getting more sinister and turning toward monetary gain.

David Woo

We're unlikely to see the yen strengthening this year. Monetary policy will remain very lax.

Richard Fisher

As a result, we are in a tightening phase of monetary policy,

David Dodge

There's still considerable monetary stimulus in the economy.

Peter Fisher

Don stepped into a world where monetary operations were broken,

Bobby Bentley

It's not necessarily a monetary thing, but it's a support group.