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In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to eat.
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.
Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.
When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.
Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.
New clothes are a great way to deal after a breakup. A good mix CD also helps you get through it and... you know, 72 hours of ice cream.
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind
Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl.
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
It was so cute and she was so shy. Someone told me that Randy Orton went up and hugged her and she wouldn't let go. It was kind of cute.
On your birthday . . . Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.
If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
It's not me standing on the podium with medals. It's me being able to walk out with a smile on my face and truly being happy with myself.
I love my life! Even if I don't get what I want, when I want it, doesn't mean the world is against me, it just means God has other plans.
O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.