Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sports Quotes

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle

Society Quotes

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
James Madison

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
Alfred Austin

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
Martha Beck

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
A. Whitney Brown

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
Boyd Rice

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
Al Roker

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

It is good for society to have this introspection.
Jacques Verges

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is not a fragrant world.
Raymond Chandler

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun

Patriotism Quotes

137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
Bill Vaughan

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Howard Zinn

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised.
Robert Walpole

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
Michael Ignatieff

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Bob Riley

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
Edith Cavell

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.
George Galloway

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

Medical Quotes

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
Samuel Butler

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
Barbara Mikulski

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Isaac Asimov

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
Bill Frist

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
Nathan Deal

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Anton Chekhov

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.
David Jones

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said 'God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isn't the one on the plane. I want a real doctor.
Anthony Edwards

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
Erma Bombeck

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
Zoe Saldana

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.
Alex Chiu

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
James H. Boren

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.
Ty Cobb

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
Nicolas Cage

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
Jay London

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Cesar Romero

Life Quotes

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Intelligence Quotes

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Happiness Quotes

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Alice Walker

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Richard Bach

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler

Government Quotes

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
Larry Ellison

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
Bill Owens

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Will Rogers

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
Bill Owens

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.
Dale Dauten

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
Jonathan Mayhew

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. Harris

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
P. J. O'Rourke

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P. J. O'Rourke

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
Dirk Kempthorne

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
Fred Woodworth

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Family Quotes

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.
Kathleen Turner

A woman can take care of the family. It takes a man to provide structure, to provide stability.
Tom DeLay

A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
Mel Gibson

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Chaim Potok

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.
Christina Milian

America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
Mitt Romney

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
Josh Billings

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.
Gwen Stefani

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
Elizabeth Fishel

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.
Barbara Bush

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
Charlie Sheen

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
Vartan Gregorian

Family is not an important thing, it's everything.
Michael J. Fox

Family is the most important thing in the world.
Princess Diana

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
Margaret Drabble

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
David Ogden Stiers

Experience Quotes

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry B. Adams

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Jan Peter Balkenende

Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor

Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger

Every moment is an experience.
Jake Roberts

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman

Design Quotes

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Niklaus Wirth

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

Accessible design is good design.
Steve Ballmer

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Pierre Bonnard

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff

Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Design is people.
Jane Jacobs

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
Ron Johnson

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
Tyra Banks

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Kenzo Tange

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier

Computers Quotes

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.
Kent Conrad

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
Philip Emeagwali

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Larry Ellison

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
Seth Lloyd

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.
Louis Gerstner

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.
Tony Visconti

Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s.
Clifford Stoll

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
Andy Rooney

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
Nicholas Negroponte

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
Nicholas Negroponte

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
Issey Miyake

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
Miguel de Icaza

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
Jonathan Shapiro

Birthday Quotes

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Erma Bombeck

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
Kurt Vonnegut

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison

Being seventy is not a sin.
Golda Meir

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
Steven Wright

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
Doug Coupland

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
Kirstie Alley

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.
Isla Fisher

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Liv Tyler

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
Ruth Warrick

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
Stephen Hopkins

I hate birthdays.
Zane Grey

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
Celine Dion

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
Barry White

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Steven Wright

Architecture Quotes

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Ayn Rand

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
Helmut Jahn

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn

A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
John Portman

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
Harry von Zell

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Martin Puryear

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
John Portman

Wisdom Quotes

fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time Quotes

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
Jonathan Carroll

But time growing old teaches all things.
Aeschylus

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
Malcolm Forbes

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mariel Hemingway

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
Golda Meir

I took some time out for life.
James L. Brooks

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Francois Rabelais

Know how to live the time that is given you.
Dario Fo

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Friedrich Schiller

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton

Success Quotes

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Shirley Jones

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
Benjamin Disraeli

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

Peace Quotes

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Swami Sivananda

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela

I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Garrett Morris

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon

Nature Quotes

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
Gilbert White

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.
Roger Tory Peterson

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Kennedy

Music Quotes

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Ace Frehley

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Love Quotes

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Samuel Lover

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

Inspirational Quotes

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
Joyce A. Myers

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

And now, this is the sweetest and most glorious day that ever my eyes did see.
Donald Cargill

Belief creates the actual fact.
William James

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
William Ellery Channing

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
Wallis Simpson

Give light and people will find the way.
Ella Baker

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Jim Elliot

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young

Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks

Health Quotes

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
Tom Stoppard

A healthy outside starts from the inside.
Robert Urich

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
John Deacon

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hippocrates

Healthy people live with their world.
Anne Wilson Schaef

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
Gloria Swanson

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.
Darren L. Johnson

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
Victoria Principal

I believe that if you're healthy, you're capable of doing everything. There's no one else who can give you health but God, and by being healthy I believe that God is listening to me.
Pedro Martinez

I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.
Casper Van Dien

I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it's fine.
Mike Piazza

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
Fran Drescher

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
Lorna Luft

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
Spike Milligan

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Denzel Washington

I really believe the only way to stay healthy is to eat properly, get your rest and exercise. If you don't exercise and do the other two, I still don't think it's going to help you that much.
Mike Ditka

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
Lexa Doig

I stand before you a totally healthy person.
Melissa Etheridge

Faith Quotes

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo

A man of courage is also full of faith.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.
Emmanuel Teney

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian Smith

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Khalil Gibran

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood

Faith is not contrary to reason.
Sherwood Eddy

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mohandas Gandhi

Faith is reason grown courageous.
Sherwood Eddy

Education Quotes

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Horace Mann

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

America is the best half-educated country in the world.
Nicholas M. Butler

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
Alan K. Simpson

An educated people can be easily governed.
Frederick The Great

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
Russell Baker

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is all a matter of building bridges.
Ralph Ellison

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost

Dreams Quotes

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence

All men of action are dreamers.
James Huneker

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe

Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.
Joy Page

Dream in a pragmatic way.
Aldous Huxley

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreaming men are haunted men.
Stephen Vincent Benet

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.
Lope de Vega

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.
Jane Roberts

Dreams are necessary to life.
Anais Nin

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
Edgar Cayce

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Change Quotes

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
James Levine

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein

Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher

Change is such hard work.
Billy Crystal

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
Denise McCluggage

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
Esther Dyson

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Art Quotes

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo

A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Pierre Bonnard

A picture is a poem without words.
Horace

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

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

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini

All art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler

Age Quotes

Age Quotes

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost

A man growing old becomes a child again.
Sophocles

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown

Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore

Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.
Jane Elliot

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Don Marquis

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
Kitty O'Neill Collins

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert Camus

All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie