Henry Moore Quote

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Marie Curie

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Leonardo da Vinci

• Music

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

Britney Spears

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Herman Melville

• Truth
• Words

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Plato

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

Andre Gide

I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.

Ernst Haas

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

Novalis

• Words

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

Epictetus

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Words

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

• Words
• Poetry

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

Paul Cezanne

• Art
• Artist

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Mae West

• Actress
• Success

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot

• Beginning

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

Sophie Marceau

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Charlie Chaplin

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Plato

To be with the same person for the rest of your life just sounds so drab.

Eva Longoria