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
  • Win
  • Credit
  • 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
  • Comfortable
  • Malaysia

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

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Growing

• 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
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Couple

• 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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  • Hands
  • Bee

• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  

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

  

  Edward Young
  • Time
  • Procrastination

• 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
  • Champagne

• 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
  • Support

• Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

  

  William Blum
  • Action
  • Degrees
  • Discomfort

• Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Pain
  • Sleep
  • Guilt

• I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Value
  • Vision
  • Blind

• Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Stone
  • Ring
  • Throne

• So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • True
  • Pain
  • Fangs

• 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