Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.
– Henry Miller
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- Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health. – Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
- TMT, too much testosterone. Way more dangerous than TNT. – Robert L Slater
- The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest. – Thomas Jefferson
- You’re a shit cake with cum for whipped cream and dynamite for candles. – Ahmed Mostafa
- It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion. – William T Vollmann
- Just because the restaurant had Dynamite Shrimp on the menu, was that any reason for the place to blow up? (re April 15 release, Killer Kitchens – Jean Harrington
- Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse. – Dean F Wilson
- His smile is laced with dynamite. – Tahereh Mafi
- A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world. – Henry David Thoreau
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- The full length of a frog doesn’t have to be seen when it’s dead. It has to be seen when it jumps. Aim for greater heights always. – Constance Chuks Friday
- I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything. – Henry Miller
- There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability. – John Miller
- Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit. – Helen Simonson
- Well, the drums gave me headaches, the sunlight flashing on my armor cooked me up like harvest day, and those magnificent destriers shit everywhere. – George RR Martin
- You get a few of them together and don’t be surprised if pipes and drums appear out of nowhere. It is a sort of magic people believe in-¦ – Thomm Quackenbush
- the song of the deadheavy as rain on the wide banana leaveshard as drums – Antonio Cisneros
- She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums. – Patrick Rothfuss
- Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- How can I wear the harness of toilAnd sweat at the daily round,While in my soul foreverThe drums of Pictdom sound? – Robert E Howard
- The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. – Mary McLeod Bethune
- We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, and another way for another. You have to listen for your own. – Audie Murphy
- Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal. – Henry Miller
- A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never. – Henry Ward Beecher
- Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself – Henry Hazlitt
- …-the two look at each other – one full of guilt – other full of pain – both full of unhappiness. – JK Rowling
- Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it. – Barbara Sher
- To start speaking my language start reading what I read… start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened. – Deyth Banger
- [W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start – Frank Jackson
- The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. – Laura Miller
- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. – GK Chesterton
- The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature. – Gustave Flaubert
- He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. – Machado de Assis
- The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. – Baltasar Gracin
- Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
- I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. – Andy Warhol
- You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes