Alice Duer Miller - Best Quotes

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course – because like democracy and freedom many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

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My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Author: Alice Duer Miller

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends – you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course – because like democracy and freedom many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.