#utter

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ↗

— Al Capp

#abstract #abstract art #bewildered #product #sold

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fatal #growth #idea #inside #leaving

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#force #get #his #his way #i

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#finger #never #touch #wing #your

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#completely #every #go #i #learned

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. ↗

— William Cobbett

#buoy #empty #falsehoods #last #long

The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#incomprehensible #literally #utter

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#humor #inspirational #funny

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#dirt #finds #heap #his #keep

They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again. ↗

— Walter Crane

#again #against #certainly #charge #could