All Quotes

All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are the ones whose eyes light up thinking, 'Oh, yes, I want some of that!'
‐‐ Michael Leunig

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.
‐‐ Dave Davies

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
‐‐ Ernest Hemingway

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
‐‐ Duane Michals

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.
‐‐ Baz Luhrmann

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science.
‐‐ Leslie Fiedler

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
‐‐ Anita Brookner

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
‐‐ Andre Balazs

All good ideas arrive by chance.
‐‐ Max Ernst

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
‐‐ Scott Alexander

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
‐‐ Jean Cocteau

All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
‐‐ Peter Warlock

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
‐‐ Jack Bowman

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
‐‐ Lord Alfred Douglas

All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
‐‐ Duane Michals

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

All government, of course, is against liberty.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

All government wars are unjust.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
‐‐ I. F. Stone

All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
‐‐ Bruce Jackson

All governments must maintain power through consent, not coercion.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.
‐‐ Philip Henry

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
‐‐ Banksy

All grand thoughts come from the heart.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

All great achievements require time.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
‐‐ John Ruskin

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
‐‐ John Ruskin

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

All great authors are seers.
‐‐ George Henry Lewes

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.
‐‐ David Lagercrantz

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
‐‐ Kenneth Clark

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
‐‐ George Gershwin

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
‐‐ Albert Camus

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
‐‐ Charles Henry Parkhurst

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
‐‐ Mitch Daniels

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
‐‐ Alexis Carrel

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

All great peoples are conservative.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle

All great pitches have a few things in common: the founder/team is wicked smart, the idea is big and a breakthrough, and the market is potentially enormous.
‐‐ Scott Weiss

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan

All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.
‐‐ Cat Deeley

All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

All great results in our universe are founded in motions and forces the most minute.
‐‐ John Joly