Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Art
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Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
- Howard Dietz - In Art
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
- Edward M. Forster - In Art
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
- Edward M. Forster - In Art
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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
- Edward Steichen - In Art
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Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
- Edward Steichen - In Art
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
- Edward Steichen - In Art
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When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
- Edward Steichen - In Art
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
- Edward Steichen - In Art
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken - In Business
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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
- Edward Appleton - In Business
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Business
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
- W. Edwards Deming - In Business
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
- Edward Gibbon - In Business
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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
- William A. Ward - In Business
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe - In Mortality
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
- Thomas Edward Lawrence - In Dreams
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton - In Dreams
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett - In Education
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Faith
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Faith
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
- Edward M. Forster - In Faith
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Forgiveness
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Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
- William A. Ward - In Forgiveness
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
- Edward W. Howe - In Friendship
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The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Government
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon - In History
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Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
- Edward Kennedy - In History
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
- Edward R. Murrow - In History
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
- Edward R. Murrow - In History
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
- Edward Albee - In Humor
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Humor
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William A. Ward - In Humor
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The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
- Edward Thomas - In Love
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
- Edward Abbey - In Nature
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Nature
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Nature
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
- Edward M. Forster - In Poetry
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Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
- Edward Kennedy - In Politics
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
- Edward Koch - In Politics
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
- Edward Koch - In Politics
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
- Edward Koch - In Politics
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
- Edward Koch - In Politics
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- Henry Ward Beecher - In Religion
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Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
- Jane Howard - In Science
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A satellite has no conscience.
- Edward R. Murrow - In Science
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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
- Howard Nemerov - In Science
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
- Edward Teller - In Science
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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
- Edward Teller - In Science
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The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
- Edward R. Murrow - In Technology
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