{"quotes":[{"text":"There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.","author":"Booker T. Washington","tags":["applause"],"id":4906,"author_id":"Booker+T.+Washington"},{"text":"All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another  and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.","author":"John Ruskin","tags":["applause"],"id":11482,"author_id":"John+Ruskin"},{"text":"At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits, and who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony of Genesis and Geology.' Like all hypocrites, these men overstate the case to such a degree, and so turn and pervert facts and words that they succeed only in gaining the applause of other hypocrites like themselves. Among the great scientists they are regarded as generals regard sutlers who trade with both armies.Surely the time must come when the wealth of the world will not be wasted in the propagation of ignorant creeds and miraculous mistakes. The time must come when churches and cathedrals will be dedicated to the use of man; when minister and priest will deem the discoveries of the living of more importance than the errors of the dead; when the truths of Nature will outrank the 'sacred' falsehoods of the past, and when a single fact will outweigh all the miracles of Holy Writ.Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then, and not until then, will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher, become a real and blessed truth.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["applause","blessed","brave","cathedrals","church","churches","civilize","clergyman","creeds","dead","discoveries","elevate","enlighten","errors","fact","facts","failed","falsehoods","generals","genesis","geology","great","harmony","holy-writ","honest","hypocrites","ignorant","lectures","living","mankind","minister","miracles","miraculous","mistakes","money","nature","past","patriot","peers","perfert","philanthropist","philosopher","poet","priest","progress","pursuit","real","recognition","reputation","sacred","school","science","scientific","stlers","superstition","teacher","think","truth","university","use","vapid","waste","weak","wealth"],"id":14144,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.","author":"Hal Holbrook","tags":["acting","applause","appreciation","laughter"],"id":16471,"author_id":"Hal+Holbrook"},{"text":"Each of us is an artist  capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.","author":"Dorothy Fadiman","tags":["applause"],"id":18515,"author_id":"Dorothy+Fadiman"},{"text":"Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes  and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe  and restores to us forgotten paradises.","author":"Edith Sitwell","tags":["applause"],"id":21870,"author_id":"Edith+Sitwell"},{"text":"The artist is the confidant of nature  flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.","author":"Auguste Rodin","tags":["applause"],"id":28867,"author_id":"Auguste+Rodin"},{"text":"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him  everybody sees them.","author":"Goethe","tags":["applause"],"id":45696,"author_id":"Goethe"},{"text":"As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["applause","comedian","comedy","exaggeration","gag","humor","humorous","humour","lovesick","madness","michael-bassey-johnson","praise"],"id":53900,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Dancing is the body made poetic.","author":"Ernst Bacon","tags":["applause"],"id":54520,"author_id":"Ernst+Bacon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":89,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}