“The human figure is coming back into fashion in painting, and what are all those poor [expletives deleted] going to do now? They never learned how to draw.” –Thomas Hart Benton, referring to painters from the Abstract Expressionist movement, via Robert Wernick
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Category: quotable
“Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.”
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
“Hum, nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.” I thought of this as I brought in donuts for the guys this morning.
“I guess I’m at the bottom of the universe right now.”
“Note, it is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge.” “Our rule is to pray without ceasing; we sin if we restrain in general, and in particular if we cease praying for the church.” –Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole […]
“…and the music that we play are the oldies of today and we think those kids are strange….”
“Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.”
“It affects us only one way: We’re angry as [expletive deleted]. And we have to find these people and kill them. It’s very simple, you can’t let them get away with this. This is a terrible, terrible thing they’ve done.” –Ray Bradbury in the Chicago Tribune, September 12, 2001.
“I like cats. And I don’t like people who don’t.” –Roger Moore as Rufus Excalibur ffolkes in ffolkes.