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
  • Decision
  • Hands
  • Bee

• The principal cause of war is war itself.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • War
  • Cause
  • Principal

• 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
  • Identity

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

  

  Donald Trump
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mediocrity

• 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
  • Success

• 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
  • Listening

• 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

• A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

  

  George Ellwanger
  • Cooking
  • Combination
  • Sportsman

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

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Dead
  • Pedestal
  • Statue

• Cocteau fell for Raray [shooting La Belle et la Bête] ― the park, not the castle. We didn't shoot in the castle, only in the park, with that marvelous hunting scene in stone. I think it was mostly because the park wasn't properly maintained. That was what pleased Cocteau most ― the sense of wildness, exactly matching the nature of the beast.

  

  Jean Marais
  • Scene
  • Stone
  • Shoot

• Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtues
  • Stone
  • Illumined

• 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