I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
The sad thing is that I know no athletes’ names. I am not a sports girl at all.
When I speak, I speak facts, and if you’re getting mad, it’s because you know it’s the truth.
I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I’m lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don’t want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
The old university attitude of ‘publish or perish’ has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.
Mothers of all ages delight in their children, but I don’t know that, if I were younger, I would feel as acutely, profoundly, preciously grateful for every smile, squeal, and – yes – diaper blowout.
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
What I didn’t know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.
David Hockney
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
I don’t know who would not classify themselves as a romantic. I think that would be sort of sad.
When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.