"When one is painting one does not think."
Raphael(04/06/1483 – 04/06/1520
Italian painter (died on his birthday)
"When one is painting one does not think."
Raphael
"Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. "
Raphael
"The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters: they begin by choosing the best and end by eating everything."
Nicolas Chamfort
"It appears to me that if one wishes to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils."
Niels H. Abel
"After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else."
Lowell Thomas
"It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant."
James D. Watson
"If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you."
André Previn
"When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there."
Ram Dass
"There is a good deal to live for, but a man has to go through hell really to find it out."
Edwin Arlington Robinson
"The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a tooth pulled or something."
Merle Haggard
"If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today."
John Sculley
"I got a job in a radio station because I could always do that with my voice—could make you believe that I was committed to the words coming out of my mouth."
Philip Austin
"It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock'n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more."
Anita Pallenberg
"He always gave me the impression that he got up in the morning to see with whom he could have a quarrel."
Sir Seymour Hicks
"My music is best understood by children and animals."
Igor Stravinsky
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'"
Isaac Asimov
"I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time."
Greer Garson
"I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest."
Tammy Wynette
"I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things."
Wendy O. Williams
"I think Juliet is very out of date. And she didn't have half the nerve of a motion picture actress, that Juliet—else she'd have taken that poison at once instead of wasting energy raving about it, and then she'd have wakened up in time, and Mr. Shakespeare would have been short a tragedy!"
Mary Anderson
"Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day."
Mickey Rooney
"Oh, God, that gray computer's down again. Suppose they'll ever get them things figured out? Give me one when they quit breaking down, will you?"
Merle Haggard
"Oh my God, look at you. Anyone else hurt in the accident?"
Don Rickles