By : Gore Vidal 0 Likes
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
By : Henry Bolingbroke
I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them.
By : John Walker Lindh
Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.
By : Jonathan Brandis
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
By : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
By : Edward Steichen
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
By : Gloria Stuart
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
By : C. S. Forester