No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.
Edouard Manet

I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.
Mark Spitz

The wise are above books.
Samuel Daniel

You have to stay one level above everyone else.
Jim Otto

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly

To set the cause above renown.
Henry Newbolt

Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Nick Cave

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
Frances Burney

East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
Eva Gabor

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
Alain Rene Le Sage

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.
Walter Kaufmann

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Mason Cooley

I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.
Julie Walters

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Charles Caleb Colton

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.
Shawn Ashmore

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
Adolf Hitler

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Samuel Richardson

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.
Marcus V. Pollio

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson