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“Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.”

Writing Sometimes Empty Rhythm Fury

Author:Stephen Spender

“Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.”

Sometimes Mother Company Boys Tree Wall Fine Hundred Wine Very Good Rings Vines Good Company

Author:Bryan Procter

“I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter.”

Sometimes Artist Painter

Author:Martin Mull

“It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.”

Art Sometimes Certain Humour Forgotten Wit Comic Abstract Encounters Anguish Abstract Art

Book:The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell

“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”

Way Kind May Sometimes Dream Might Certain Order Painting Perception Perceive Subconscious Chords

Author:Robert Motherwell

“Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different”

Two Different Sometimes Matter Character Form Concepts Property Wave Obvious Remarkable Radiation Particles Duality Exhibits

Book:The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

Source: The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

“In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.”

World Sometimes Names Violence Duty Messages Hatred Significant Vengeance Timely

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.”

Looks Sometimes Shapes Echoes

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“You think you're developing and getting better and then you see something you did years ago. Looking at your early work.. sometimes it has a depth that surprises you.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Growth Years Ago Surprise Depth Developing Get Better Early Work

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“A fop sometimes gives important advice.”

Giving Important Sometimes Advice Giving Advice

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.”

Want Feels Sometimes Communication Communicate

Author:Damien Hirst

“The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.”

Sometimes Feelings Acceptance Modest Stimulus

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.”

Sometimes Artist Realizing Study Models

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind.”

Mind Sometimes Whole Dream Style Possibility Objects Bears Good Things Regions Really Great Breadth

Author:Paul Klee

“Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.”

Sometimes Form Artist Order Objects Mere Representation Spices

Book:Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays

Source: Toward a Psychology of Art: Collected Essays

“The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.”

Doe Art Ends Sometimes Feelings Purpose Imagination Failing Succeed Art Is Impression Imitation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“In the corporate world, sometimes things aren`t exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures.”

World Sometimes Black White Corporate Black And White Procedures Accounting Corporate World

Author:George W. Bush

“Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.”

Made Sometimes Might Huge Distance Curiosity Chains Blunt Extending Hub

Author:Alain de Botton

“I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.”

Way Writing Book Sometimes Found Majors Exciting Editing Manuscripts Revision Fresh Start Shredding

Author:William Manchester

“I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.”

Way Feels I Can Book Sometimes Enough Moments Home Fall Reading Imagine Paper Papers Overflow Right Moment

Book:Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

Source: Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

“There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.”

Giving Heart May Important Book Self Sometimes Reason Facts Use Feelings Economy Notes Instinct Satisfaction Vanity Confession Smallest Publish Diaries Crumbs Self-satisfaction

Author:Alberto Moravia

“I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.”

Way Sometimes Facts Father Felt Growth My Own Garden Insignificant Landmarks

Author:Ian Mcewan

“To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.”

Men Giving Soul Self Sometimes Compassion Communication Communicate Sympathy

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.”

Author:Malcolm Lowry

“In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.”

Sometimes Enemy Deceit Sugar Bouquets Olden Times

Author:Hugh Latimer

“The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.”

Sometimes Choices Process Rooms Numbers Audience Stage Fronts Events Determined Experiments Rehearsal Choices You Make

Author:Ben Kingsley

“I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.”

Sometimes Found Interesting Study Exciting Organisms Humbling

Author:Edward T. Hall

“If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.”

Ifs Knows Wells Persons Sometimes Causes Sides Class Bigger Nurture Bullied Lots Of Friends Being Bullied Cafeteria Bigger Person

Author:Lady Gaga

“It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.”

People Knows Feels Sometimes Fun Feel Good Feel Better Mockery Make People Feel Better

Author:Lady Gaga

“By the time you get to year six, there's never a break . . . and you get tired. There's always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn't really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don't see the crisis approaching. You're not as on guard as you once were.”

Years Has Beens Sometimes House White Break Six Crisis Tired Factors White House Fatigue

Author:Ed Rollins

“Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.”

People World Feels Writing Real Sometimes Leap Imaginative

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.”

Life Sometimes Life Is Easy Painful

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.”

Want Sometimes Safe My Family Safety Polarizing

Author:Lady Gaga

“Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.”

Firsts Sometimes First Time Intention Boring Shock Shocking Vacuous

Author:Roger Scruton

“Sometimes I think that there's a fine line between impressionistic and messy.”

Thinking Sometimes Lines Fine Messy Fine Lines

Author:Lady Gaga

“With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.”

Men Two Sometimes Mathematics Method Invention Absurd Newton Calculus Oversimplification

Author:Richard Courant

“I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people”

People Thinking Two Sometimes Grows Parent Talent Unions Singers Tone Deaf

Author:Joely Fisher

“As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.”

Thinking Art Sometimes Grows Realizing Effects Aging Enormous Frightening Time To Think

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.”

Sometimes Lines Music Virtue Ocean Calm Intense Contemplation Ecstasy Serenity Severe Verge Monotonous Asceticism Sensuous Horizontal

Author:Charles Gounod

“It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.”

Thinking Sometimes Past Used Interesting Wonder Wall Used To Be Times Past

Author:Patrick Geddes

“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.”

Looks Sometimes Matter Bigs Moving Fields Paint Active Cows Canvas Dissatisfaction

Author:Philip Guston

“Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up where it was in the first place. But at the end it feels different, and it had to make the voyage. I am a moralist and cannot accept what has not been paid for, or a form that has not been lived through.”

Feels Firsts Different Ends Sometimes Moving Form Accepting Wind Paid Shrinks Voyages Moralist

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.”

Different Sometimes Focus Pieces Priorities

Author:John Hartford

“Quite simply, it is true that I can be a pig! It is not a lie to say that. Sometimes, I feel that I am in the right even when I am wrong.”

Feels I Can Sometimes Lying Pigs

Author:Thierry Henry

“But someone once described the contrast between a good life and a godly life as the difference between the top of the ocean and the bottom. On top, sometimes it's like glass -- serene and calm -- and other times it's raging and stormy. But hundreds of fathoms below, it is beautiful and consistent, always calm, always peaceful.”

Sometimes Beautiful Differences Ocean Bottom Calm Glasses Rage Peaceful Consistent Good Life Contrast Godly Serene Fathom Stormy Godly Life

Book:From Ashes to Glory

Source: From Ashes to Glory

“The most important thing is to just do it. If I work at a higher level I have responsibility to do better than what I've done before. Sometimes the best happens - beyond possibility. Just do it. Can't worry about it.”

Ifs Important Sometimes Done Happens Levels Responsibility Worry Possibility Higher Importance Important Things Just Do It Higher Level

Author:LeRoy Neiman

“I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.”

Sometimes Cases Violence Colour Strongest Vivid Palette

Author:Brian De Palma

“My father said you can't make a living in birds, my relatives all went into business: bankers, stockbrokers. However, they eventually lost it all and died in wheelchairs. Sometimes you have to be a little aberrant.”

Littles Said Sometimes Father Lost Bird Died Bankers Wheelchairs Stockbrokers

Author:Roger Tory Peterson

“I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water”

Feels Sometimes Film Water Behinds Right Now Buckets Alamo

Author:Stuart Pearce

“The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.”