Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!
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Ed Wood
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.
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Henry Adams
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
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Marshall McLuhan
It is good taste and good taste alone that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
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Salvador Dali
More Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man and to the man with special talents this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part...
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might ' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self....
