Famous quotes containing the words general, talking and/or pictures:
“If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Just remember, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you’re talking about, they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community.”
—Frances Goodrich (1891–1984)
“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)