Still Life Quotes - Page 5

• I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

  Ben Shahn

  People, Sake, Action

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• He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

  Alfred Austin

  Life, Feels, Stills

  Alfred Austin, “Is Life Worth LIVIng?”

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• Divinity for the sake of the simple-minded is beautiful. Those theological assertions you write, say, or live by that you later feel foolish about, it means God still lives in you enough to tell you that they were indeed foolish. By mistakes you know you are alive.

  Criss Jami

  Beautiful, Mistake, Mean

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.99, Criss Jami

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• The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

  Edward Kennedy

  Dream, Hope, Political

  "The Dream Shall Not Die" by Gershon Hepner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2009.

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• I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn't apply. But they do. It's still life on life's terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

  Chris Farley

  Stars, Thinking, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

  Terrell Davis

  Mom, Strong, Brother

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• The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

  George Harrison

  Sadness, Tears, Flow

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• People ask 'How do you get so eh-ish?' I don't know if it's just because so much of my family still lives in Canada and I finished studies up there.

  Stana Katic

  People, Canada, Study

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• Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

  Tom Robbins

  Fun, Adventure, Destiny

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam

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• The man without a navel still lives in me.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, He Man, Navel

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• [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Two, Should Have

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I have a bumper sticker that Bowen created that says Regardless of my kids grades, they have an 'A' in my book'. Without play the child that still lives in all of us will always be incomplete. And not only physically, but creatively, intellectually, and spiritually as well.

  George A. Sheehan

  Leadership, Sports, Children

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• There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the disease still lives on in his children. Not in our bodies, but in our souls. We exist where normal human children are expected to be; we're even shaped the same. But each of us in our own way has been replaced by an imitation child, shaped out of a twisted, fetid, lipidous goiter that grew out of Father's soul.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Father, Names

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.67, Macmillan

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• When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

  Rumi

  Heart, Despair, Desert

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• I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

  Ken Burns

  Artist, Landscape, Might

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• If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Home, Kids, Rocks

  "HoneyLine: My HoneyLine TV Interview With Kid Rock" by Gabrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

  John Hurt

  Character, Light, Darkness

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