Michelangelo Quotes

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

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• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Soldiers

• Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

  

  Yuna
  • Home
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  • Malaysia

• Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
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• I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I have not worn yellow since.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • War
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• Procrastination is the thief of time.

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
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• A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

  

  Arnold Bennett
  • May
  • High
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• Undeniably, Birdseye changed our civilization.

  

  Mark Kurlansky

• Traveling is not a hindrance for me; it's something I actually enjoy.

  

  Cobi Jones

• Nature doesn't feel compelled to stick to a mathematically precise algorithm; in fact, nature probably can't stick to an algorithm.

  

  Margaret Wertheim
  • Nature

• A huge part of my identity is being a woman, and that's really important for me, and that's a big part of my self-expression, so I think it's really interesting sort of exploring what it means if someone doesn't have that.

  

  Angourie Rice
  • Important
  • Interesting
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• Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself-anyone who thinks that they do is destined for mediocrity.

  

  Donald Trump
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• If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

  

  Peter Thiel

• I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

  

  Jonny Wilkinson
  • People
  • World
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• Between Italy and France, I have chosen Luca Marin, the love of my life.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • Life
  • France
  • Italy

• Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
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• I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Want
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• Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Women
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• When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Happens
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• Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Dead
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  • Statue

• Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

  

  Lord Robertson
  • Dead
  • Stone
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• I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Time
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  • Kids

• When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said, "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Stone
  • Statue
  • Reported