Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.Thomas Carlyle
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
Dan Gilbert -
The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
Harrison Salisbury -
I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
Larry Wall -
To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
Basil Bunting -
The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
Yves Behar -
I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
Wendy E. Long
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We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.
Fabiola Gianotti -
about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
Agnes Martin -
If you just say nothing, there is no way they can make you talk.
Lesley Lawson -
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
Alvar Aalto -
A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.
Auguste Renoir -
The best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend.
Colleen McCullough
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Love well, be loved and do something of value.
Aristotle -
We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.
Tina Weymouth -
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
Albert Einstein -
Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
Kevin Spacey -
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle