Quotes of: Fragile-thing Keyword

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Graham Swift

It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Jeff Dunham

I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

Kristen Stewart

The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.

Madonna Ciccone

'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.

Olivia Newton-John

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

Andre Benjamin

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

bell hooks

I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

Bat for Lashes

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

Jason Newsted

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

Marilyn French

Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.

Tim Crouch

Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.

10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Sometimes nothing is the best thing to say and often the best thing to do.

21 Steps to Better Relationships: Find More Balance with Others

It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food.

$3.33

My favorite snack is vagina. The only thing I hate is unwrapping all that saran wrap.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

Ashes to Ashes

it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

All Things Considered

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

All Things Considered

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

All These Things I've Done

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

The Angel Experiment