Morton Feldman Quotes
I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break
Morton Feldman
Quotes to Explore
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Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
Barbara Boxer
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
Lady Gaga
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Jack Prelutsky
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
Ednita Nazario
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
Ban Ki-moon
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
Michael Peter Balzary
Atoms for Peace
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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
Walter Kirn
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It is better to underpromise and overdeliver than vice versa. For this one need not break the law of the land.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
William C. Somerville
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not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.
Freya Stark
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There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.
Sabrina Salerno
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We had no faith in (Cook) whatever. He was not even good for a day's work, and the idea of his making such an astounding claim as having reached the Pole was so ludicrous that, after our laugh, we dropped the matter altogether.
Matthew Henson
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Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
Immanuel Kant
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Optimism refuses to believe that the road ends without options.
Robert H. Schuller
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Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.
Tracy Lawrence
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed.
Abraham Lincoln
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I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
