Many, many of my paintings have come from the first chapter of Moby Dick.


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Songs and Stories from Moby Dick,
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Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at tha...
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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I didn't know there were so many black-and-white dogs in the state of Indiana.
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We heard that the boat sank, and many people from the village have come.
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First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
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First rally of many. Many across the whole state of South Dakota.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. -Robert Greenleaf.
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No matter how har...
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Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
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Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
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My wife and I are members of the museum. There were kids from all over Indiana.
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I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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I've had many ideas come from clients.
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First of all, we righted a many-years wrong that should have never happened in the first place,
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If fear this tragic avalanche is the first of many to come this winter...and the danger will increas...
ANN BRUNBORG
I fear this tragic avalanche is the first of many to come this winter... and the danger will increas...
ANN BRUNBORG
I fear this tragic avalanche is the first of many to come this winter...and the danger will increase...
ANN KRISTIN BRUNBORG
If fear this tragic avalanche is the first of many to come this winter...and the danger will increas...
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I fear this tragic avalanche is the first of many to come this winter... and the danger will increas...
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST
What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST
The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES
For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM
Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM
On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...
ROBERT FULGHUM
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
ROBERT FULGHUM
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
ROBERT FULGHUM
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for...
ROBERT FULGHUM
'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends...
ROBERT FULGHUM
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold h...
ROBERT FULGHUM
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
ROBERT FULGHUM
'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.
ROBERT FULGHUM
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem...
ROBERT FULGHUM