Christopher Wren Quotes

IF you want to see my monument, look around you!

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• It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.

  

  Young Thug
  • Good
  • Made
  • Thing

• With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • She
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • Said
  • Saying

• Knights of the Rosy Cross, they bore Its weight within the heart, but wore Without, devotion's sign in glistening ruby bright; The gall and vinegar they drank alone, But to the world at large would only own The wine of faith, sparkling with rosy light.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • World
  • Heart
  • Faith

• Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Different
  • Children
  • Family

• It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Important
  • Bad
  • Brain

• Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want to know about the whole black experience.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Experience
  • History
  • Black

• We would rather have our employees running our business.

  

  James Sinegal
  • Business
  • Running

• It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • World
  • Important

• Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

  

  Jerry Stiller

• People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

  

  Bob Nelson
  • People
  • Money
  • May

• To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Wonder

• It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen: How does it play on your mind's screen?

  

  Debra Granik
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

  

  Bob Hawke
  • Home
  • War

• Every newspaper on earth has called me a liar.

  

  John McAfee
  • Earth
  • Liar

• When you break bones, they heal up and come back even stronger.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Up

• Urban civilization is warring civilization.

  

  Jacques Ellul

• I think we could stack up. I don't know how it would be to have the whole world looking over your shoulder.

  

  David Jenkins
  • World
  • Shoulder

• Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mind
  • Behinds
  • Burden

• “It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface, of a light absorbent material, absolutely bare of details, and of which the decoration is formed by a composition of shadows, drawn by shadows still darker.”

  

  Aldo Rossi
  • Dark
  • Details
  • Monument

• For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.

  

  George E. P. Box
  • Hands
  • Scientist
  • Practicals

• IF you want to see my monument, look around you!

  

  Christopher Wren
  • Monument