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
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
I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
Lady Gaga
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
Jack Prelutsky
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
Ednita Nazario
Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
Ban Ki-moon
Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
Michael Peter Balzary
Atoms for Peace
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
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
The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.
Benigno Aquino III
We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
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
There was a "We" and hope, but nothing after.
Sabrina Salerno
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
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.
Immanuel Kant
...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
John Stuart Mill
People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.
Grace Slick
Starship
Philosophy - hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
Anne Carson
