Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr Category: Miscellaneous
I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men. – Bernard M. Baruch Category: Miscellaneous
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars. – André Gide, Journals, 4 August 1930 Category: Miscellaneous
One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers. – Lawrence Welk Category: Music
How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance! – Samuel Taylor Coleridge Category: Dance, Dancing
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. – Pablo Picasso Category: work