Michelangelo Quotes

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

Michelangelo

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• Reduces

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Together
  • Principles

• When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Live
  • Down

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Play
  • Player

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Grateful

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Marriage

• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Proud
  • Changed
  • Lifestyle

• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Reality
  • Failure
  • Software

• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Tongue

• I will never sell Flipkart.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • Never
  • Will
  • Sell

• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Sports
  • Red
  • Professional

• Life at best is bittersweet.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Life
  • Best
  • Bittersweet

• Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

  

  Charlie Byrd
  • People
  • Music
  • Community

• Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Stars
  • Endless
  • Succession

• A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

  

  Stephen J. Cannell
  • Television
  • Bottle
  • Lightening

• Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

  

  George Clooney
  • Kids
  • Guy
  • Wonder

• I consider my voice to be a centrist moderate voice among the nine Democratic candidates.

  

  Bob Graham

• Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

  

  Michelangelo
  • Wonder
  • Consumes
  • Reduces