Food & Drink Sayings

144 sayings found from the Modern era from 144 authors

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

— Zora Neale Hurston Uncertain
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The theater is a school of weeping and of laughter, a forum where man is free and can question norms of all kinds.

— Federico Garcia Lorca 1935
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The greatest poverty is not to live in a cell, but to be without hope.

— Samuel Beckett Unknown
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I'm sick of this weather. It's always raining or cloudy.

— Claude Monet 1890
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The great geniuses are those who have the shortest memory.

— Salvador Dali 1960s
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Diego, there have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

— Frida Kahlo 1953
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I think it would be great if everybody was a machine.

— Andy Warhol 1966
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I'm an artist, and I'm a writer, and I'm a musician. And I'm a Beatle. And I'm a human being.

— John Lennon Approx. 1970s
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When you're creating, you're not thinking about the critics.

— Miles Davis 1980s
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The big bands were great. They were very important to me. I learned a lot from them.

— Frank Sinatra 1970s
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I believe the artist's problem is to create a new order of beauty.

— Jackson Pollock c. 1940s
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I just want to create. That's my purpose.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat c. 1980s
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The greatest misfortune that can befall an artist is to be understood.

— Richard Wagner 1858
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It is always better to be a good man than a great composer.

— Giuseppe Verdi approx. 1880s
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I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of dying. And I'm not afraid of dying alone.

— Johnny Cash 2003
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It is not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance that is the death of knowledge.

— Henry Ford Uncertain, early 20th century
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The millionaires are the bees that make the honey, and the rest of us are the flies that eat it.

— Andrew Carnegie Late 19th Century
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The humblest of men can do a great deal more than he thinks he can.

— John D. Rockefeller Early 20th Century
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The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

— J.P. Morgan Early 20th Century
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Never tell your resolutions beforehand, or it's half a defeat.

— Cornelius Vanderbilt Late 19th Century
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