quotes about Whistler

last updated: November 28, 2023

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
-- Art Carney

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There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.
-- Warren MacKenzie

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“Mayfield said, "You asked what I was thinking. Well, I will tell you. I was thinking that a man like myself, after suffering such a blow as you men have struck on this day, has two distinct paths he might travel in his life. He might walk out into the world with a wounded heart, intent on sharing his mad hatred with every person he passes; or, he might start out anew with an empty heart, and he should take care to fill it up with only proud things from then on, so as to nourish his desolate mind-set and cultivate something positive or new.”
“The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose to continue to wage a hopeless war to preserve the existing architecture for copyright by upping the stakes and using better weapons to make sure that people respect it. If we do this, public support for copyright will continue to weaken, pushing creativity underground and producing a generation that is alienated from the copyright concept.”
“Friends don't let heads drive drunk!”
“Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 04, 2017
“My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.”

Source : "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.
“Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.”
“If you can fit in the suit, you've got the job.”
“I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.”
“People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but at least in part a sincere attempt on the part of people who felt they were superior to other people to magnanimously improve the lot of their inferiors.”
“They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.”