quotes about Television Commercials

“Once I graduated that's when I grew my 'infamous' beard. I trim it every once in awhile but that's about it.”

“Oh how I hate people!”

“Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.”

“Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, myfather's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.”

“Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument”

“That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.”

Source : Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

“To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.”

“If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?”

Source : Mario Pei (1965). “The Story of Language”

“Gardening is like everything else in life, you get out of it as much as you put in. No one can make a garden by buying a few packets of seeds or doing an afternoon's weeding. You must love it, and then your love will be repaid a thousandfold, as every gardener knows.”

Source : Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.54, Pavilion Books

“Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.”