| "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination." »Norman Vincent Peale |
| "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." »Sri da Avabhas |
| "One picture is worth a thousand words." »Fred R. Barnard |
| "History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| "Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it." »Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| "It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road." »Kareem Abdul-Jabar |
| "When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman." »Betty Naomi Friedan |
| "A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here." »Steven Wright |
| "I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed." »Etty Hillesum |
| "Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words." »Napoleon |
| "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann von Goethe |
| "A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed." »Joseph Wood Krutch |
| "The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield |
| "Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is." »Henri Matisse |
| "Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique." »Anonymous |
| "A good picture is equivalent to a good deed." »Vincent Van Gogh |
| "Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before." »Shel Silverstein |
| "Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and archive mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement, against that past." »George Steiner |
| "When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art." »Marc Chagall |
| "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." »George Santayana |
| "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building--steadily building." »Robert J. Collier |
| "And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world." »John Green |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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