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According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.


Mark Tobey

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ANDREW BARBOUR I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fa...
OGDEN NASH I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboard...
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STEVE HARVEY If love did not exist I would be so goddamn sane my poems would be billboards. Suburbia would be eno...
ANDREA GIBSON Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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CHRISTINE GREGOIRE I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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RONY ABOVITZ She scraped by. She didn't have much worth stealing that I knew of.
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JOE SHUSTER There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.
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DONNA SMITH Judge not lest ye be judged.
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MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
MARK RUTTE He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi...
MARK RYDELL I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an...
MARK MCGWIRE O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover th...
MARK TWAIN A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
MARK TWAIN Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so,...
MARK TWAIN There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will...
MARK MCCORMACK