"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo Buonarotti(03/06/1475 – 02/18/1564)
Italian painter, sculptor ("Pietà")
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
Michelangelo Buonarotti
"Since when was genius found respectable?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell."
General Philip Sheridan
"Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas."
Davy Crockett
"I have already given two cousins to the war, and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother."
Artemus Ward
"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."
Louisa May Alcott
"He who limps is still walking."
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
"The term 'comics' long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. 'Sequential Art' is a more accurate description of the form."
Will Eisner
"I never practice my guitar... from time to time I just open the case and throw in a piece of raw meat."
Wes Montgomery
"He who expects much can expect little."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"I am providing you with a copulation of answers to several questions raised..."
Marion Barry, Jr.
"Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute."
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
"Let's just say there's not a drop of Jewish blood in him."
Rob Reiner
"The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd."
Ivor Novello
"If there is another way to skin a cat, I don't want to know about it."
Steven Kravitz
"I want to keep going till I drop."
Nelson Eddy
"An unchecked ego will sooner or later be bad for business."
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."
Pearl S. Buck
"We actors are born at the rise of a curtain, and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever. What use is it then to say to our critics, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday'?"
Micheál Mac Liammóir
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
Ayn Rand
"I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart."
Georgia O'Keeffe
"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
Nancy Reagan