James Boswell Quotes
Scottish - Lawyer October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
James Boswell

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
James Boswell

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
James Boswell

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
James Boswell

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell

We must take our friends as they are.
James Boswell

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
James Boswell


Bob Ross Quotes
American - Artist October 29, 1942 - July 4, 1995

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.
Bob Ross

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.
Bob Ross

There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.
Bob Ross

I really believe that if you practice enough you could paint the 'Mona Lisa' with a two-inch brush.
Bob Ross

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
Bob Ross

I don't intimidate anyone. Instead, I try to get people to believe in themselves.
Bob Ross

I tell people, 'You can do this.' And they write back and say, 'You were right. I can do this. And now I believe I can do anything.'
Bob Ross

I was the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work. The job requires you to be a mean, tough person. And I was fed up with it. I promised myself that if I ever got away from it, it wasn't going to be that way any more.
Bob Ross

We get letters every day from people wanting more mountains. As many as I paint, they still say, 'Give me more mountains.'
Bob Ross

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.
Bob Ross

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
Bob Ross

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.
Bob Ross

If you study my paintings, there are no signs of human life.
Bob Ross

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers. I achieved that a long time ago with TV. I don't need any more.
Bob Ross

I stay hidden. I'm sort of hard to find.
Bob Ross

People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.
Bob Ross

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.
Bob Ross

I don't intimidate anyone.
Bob Ross

Traditionally, art has been for the select few.
Bob Ross

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.
Bob Ross

Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.
Bob Ross

One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these paintings we do on television?' Most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country. They auction them off, and they make a happy buck with 'em.
Bob Ross


Ann-Marie MacDonald Quotes
Canadian - Playwright Born: October 29, 1958

I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.
Ann-Marie MacDonald

'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Some people talk about children wanting to be born as though somewhere out there in the collective unconscious there's a spirit, or a thought or an idea that wants to be born. And I sometimes feel that way about stories... that they're there and they want to be told.
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
Ann-Marie MacDonald

I grew up moving around because my dad was in the Air Force - I think this has carried over into my work in that I like to hop around from one medium to another.
Ann-Marie MacDonald

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.
Ann-Marie MacDonald

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'
Ann-Marie MacDonald

You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.
Ann-Marie MacDonald