Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.

Author: Rachel Kushner

Author: Rachel Kushner

Quote #436756

I didn't come from a lot. I had a lot of love and support from my family, but as far as money and th

Author: Keke Palmer
Quote #348030

Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-e

Author: Dorothy Day
Quote #324417

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

Author: Jonathan Franzen
Quote #365249

A psychologist would probably diagnose insanity for a nation that spends more on its military than t

Author: Steven Magee
Quote #438836

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us

Author: Tony Judt
Quote #289573

Our people must be taught to desist from accepting bribes. The ability to say NO, must become a core

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #9141

There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and h

Author: Woody Allen
Quote #336773

May We Love Ourselves. May We Love Each Other.May We Believe that Our Dreams Can Come True.We Are St

Author: Melia Keeton-Digby
Quote #340862

By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across th

Author: Murray Kempton
Quote #354434

Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them?

Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Quote #356321

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem t

Author: Steven Heighton
Quote #197389

Trying is better option than giving up..

Author: Sher E Yazdan
Quote #298587

I never use the word renunciation at all. I say: "Rejoice in life,in love,in meditation,in the beaut

Author: Osho
Quote #208018

After all, it seemed far nobler to give up one’s life to the light than to the dark.

Author: Bella Forrest
Quote #209403

Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one

Author: Marcel Proust
Quote #503385

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few rema

Author: Marilyn Monroe
Quote #75550

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander

Author: Mark Twain
Quote #373321

First rule to be a photographer, you have to be invisible.

Author: Sameh Talhamy
Quote #89086

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him fe

Author: Nicholas Sparks
Quote #289133

The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowle

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Quote #303158

Love with pride is like chasing the pavement. There'll be a long chasing until it ends.

Author: Dee Prathia
Quote #297890

There are these places on your poem, / where I want to write bodies.

Author: Mikl Paul
Quote #204083

People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders mak

Author: Israelmore Ayivor
Quote #13715

Righteousness is the truth revealed and working in you.

Author: Sherry K. White
Quote #212488

Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn't consist of any

Author: Egor Kraft
Quote #40487

We don't even know we are family of faith?

Author: Unknown
Quote #382797

If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. If you were never sad, you w

Author: Jeekeshen Chinnappen
Quote #340090

Well, it is in fact possible to put things behind you, Rakel. The art of dealing with ghosts is to d

Author: Jo Nesbø
Quote #35524

They say that Good ultimately wins, OK! Sir, Agreed! but the win-loss record of Good vs. Evil is lik

Author: Mohit Sharma
Quote #454705

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and becom

Author: Damien Hirst
Quote #45906

My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heav

Author: Charlotte Brontë
Quote #468912

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater tha

Author: Jesus Christ
Quote #202229

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell y

Author: Shannon L. Alder
Quote #279347

Find a secret place and be unreachable! And then, in the silence of solitude, the things you cannot

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #462346

I'm not really into religion.

Author: Harry Dean Stanton
Quote #312798

That NASA was involved suggests that L.A. was considered so alien both to police officers and to sci

Author: Geoff Manaugh
Quote #86211

As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all

Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Quote #1125

Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.

Author: Veronica Rossi
Quote #357103

A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in

Author: T.C. Boyle
Quote #10390

[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and

Author: Daniel Quinn
Quote #341204

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by

Author: Wallace D. Wattles
Quote #258009

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Author: Bernard of Clairvaux
Quote #350422

Missing tiny things in our life is more painful than things that we deserve in our live

Author: Mohan Malkani
Quote #454996

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Quote #16147

Thank God for all my troubles, he made me trust in Him.

Author: Unknown
Quote #301327

There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other be

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #338947

The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!

Author: Mehmet Murat ildan
Quote #49107

There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. The

Author: Steve Backley
Quote #321689

If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

Author: Peter Arnett
Quote #51919

Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-li

Author: Ace Antonio Hall
Quote #162229

Histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more f

Author: Victoria Aveyard
Quote #213897

For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret anno

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Quote #470355

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Author: John Keats
Quote #352049

The greatest goal is to be a God-carrier in your sphere of life

Author: Sunday Adelaja
Quote #398489

All her life she'd had little interest in the workings of boys' minds, which she imagined only as a

Author: Omar El Akkad
Quote #462109

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India

Author: Mark Twain
Quote #113447

That’s the problem with peace. Peace make you careless.

Author: Marlon James
Quote #487686

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad a

Author: William Proxmire
Quote #368888

Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this

Author: Max Gladstone
Quote #458727

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with be

Author: Henry Fonda
Quote #375693

When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larg

Author: Elizabeth Berg
Quote #311814

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratul

Author: Shan Sa
Quote #459059

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at

Author: Harold Ramis
Quote #119001

Our strong spirit will survive every situation

Author: Unknown
Quote #55346

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

Author: Amit Ray
Quote #329590

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali

Author: Davis Miller
Quote #212489

Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.

Author: Lish McBride
Quote #74091

When I see you smile, I feel a volcano of magical eruptions happening within my heart!

Author: Avijeet Das
Quote #294177

Who else, when we stepped to the line in Torino, was going to be so mentally tough? Who else would h

Author: Apolo Anton Ohno
Quote #302338

Notice the difference: A child’s disability is the focus in traditional classroom settings, but his

Author: Sandra K. Cook
Quote #10284

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Author: Stephen King
Quote #364006

She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smile

Author: Marcel Proust
Quote #270509

You should feel free to feel how you want and don't think of what people think.

Author: Kristen Ashley
Quote #480959

'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

Author: Jonathan Ive
Quote #493728

To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive hi

Author: Geoffrey Boycott
Quote #19643

Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are

Author: Germany Kent
Quote #387025

If I look closely, my failures are less about my inadequacies and more about the fact that I channel

Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough
Quote #153568

With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Author: Jenni Schaefer
Quote #227696

You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. Still wondering whether it is worth giving a shot at

Author: Manoj Arora
Quote #111370

Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing.

Author: Richie Norton
Quote #78742

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McD

Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Quote #352559

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

Author: Guy Gavriel Kay
Quote #406359

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Author: George Eliot
Quote #16524

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Author: Tallulah Bankhead
Quote #411298

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #332660

Reality is littered with the corpses of unattained dreams and desires.

Author: Steven Redhead
Quote #451772

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to

Author: William Godwin
Quote #108458

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Author: Glen Cook
Quote #501221

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energ

Author: David Suzuki
Quote #110806

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job

Author: Unknown
Quote #3240

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Author: Unknown
Quote #120157

Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life.

Author: Ronnie Gilbert
Quote #405953

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Author: Louis Auchincloss
Quote #109554

Han Solo.A legend of the Rebellion against the Empire. Trader, pirate, con man, and fighter extraord

Author: Alan Dean Foster
Quote #480504

Although the Nasser revolution of 1952 was secular, the culture remained deeply religious - but it w

Author: Ahmed Zewail
Quote #205864

Live your dreams.

Author: Cynthia Vespia
Quote #122818

You aren’t some dream I want to relive. You’re the part of my life that someone has decided to rip a

Author: Emalynne Wilder
Quote #138475

The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looki

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Quote #177579

Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous ‘

Author: Archibald Marwizi