Arnold Adoff Quotes

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

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• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Light

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• Different astronauts sleep in different ways.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Different
  • Sleep
  • Astronauts

• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Me
  • Saying
  • Newspapers

• We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Financial

• I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Being

• Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Saying

• In like a dimwit, out like a light.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Light
  • Like
  • Out

• These changes are part of what keeps me interested and excited. Life won't let me keep coming at it from the same angle.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life

• You will find that there is no other difference of opinion as regards any portions of the Universe, except that the philosophers believe in the Eternity of the Universe and we believe in the Creation. Note this.

  

  Maimonides
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Opinion

• These golden mattersOf Gyges and his treasuriesAre no concern of mine.Jealousy has no power over me,Nor do I envy a god his work,And I do not burn to rule.Such things have noFascination for my eyes.

  

  Archilochus
  • Work
  • God
  • Power

• All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

  

  Jared Diamond

• I've always been into computers. When I was getting out of high school and forming my identity musically, all of it was really coming into the fold, computers and drum machines. It felt like, you know, I'm in the right place at the right time. I liked the collision.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using joy as a weapon because joy is the best weapon against oppression; it's the best weapon against depression.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Important
  • Joy
  • Walking

• The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• God, send me an angel from the heavens above. Send me an angel to heal my broken heart from being in love, 'cause all I do is cry. God, send me an angel to wipe the tears from my eyes.

  

  Amanda Perez
  • Heart
  • Tears
  • Angel

• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Easy
  • Mountain
  • Genius

• It's pretty hard to tell somebody who won 211 seats the first time out, having started way behind, and then 169 the next time out, that he can't do it a third time against Jean Chrétien, Preston Manning and Audrey McLaughlin. Give me a break.

  

  Brian Mulroney
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

  

  Arnold Adoff
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