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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Billy Joel
Life
,
Around
,
Artist
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
Moliere
Known
,
Opera
,
Expensive
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere
Work
,
Famous
,
Book
I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.
Syd Barrett
Avoiding
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Making
,
Faithful
,
Promise
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Stonewall Jackson
Country
,
Fighting
,
Soldier
I'm my most creative between 3 and 5 a.m. That's the way I've always been.
Marilyn Manson
Between
,
Creative
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Brad Garrett
Life
,
Happiness
,
Smile
The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
Bo Bennett
Success
,
Good
,
Society
Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.
Lois Capps
Health
,
Important
,
Wrong
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Two
,
Familiar
,
Author
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan
Art
,
Happen
,
Old
Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Simone Weil
Art
,
Works
,
Consumed
Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
Charles Lindbergh
Strange
,
Talk
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Oswald Chambers
God
,
Person
,
Done
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Great
,
Government
,
Beautiful
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'
Demetri Martin
Win
,
Said
,
Word
City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason Cooley
Life
,
Country
,
City
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
Desmond Tutu
Evil
,
Human
,
Capacity
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
Life
,
Hope
,
Art
Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.
Clare Short
Women
,
Men
,
Find
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Nolan Ryan
Success
,
Change
,
True
There was at time in my life where all I wanted was a relationship, and I thought that was the most important thing.
Kim Kardashian
Life
,
Time
,
Important
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.
Robert Hall
History
,
Attention
,
Individual
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy Giuliani
Great
,
Strong
,
Important
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
Eric Hoffer
True
,
Human
,
Obstacles
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke
Nothing
,
Fashion
,
Riches
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand
Experience
,
Difficult
,
Last
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel
Music
,
Time
,
Give
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
Richard Lewis
Life
,
Love
,
Two
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