Arthur Davison Ficke Quotes

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

Arthur Davison Ficke

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• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Respect
  • Kindness

• I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Thing

• If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Good
  • Think

• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Everybody
  • Clean

• The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Acting
  • Said
  • Awesome

• So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Women
  • Teenagers
  • Empower

• People in misery is what most important in art.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Evil

• Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Free

• ‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Senior

• I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Question
  • Wonder
  • Loyalty

• By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead – or behind – everybody else's taste. And I'm not really convinced I'd like it to change. There's something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It's the wild-dog genre.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Dog

• The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Business

• Only damaged people want good things to happen to them through visualization. They want something for nothing.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Good

• In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Daughter

• All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Freedom
  • Certain
  • Limits

• The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Together

• The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

  

  Arthur Davison Ficke
  • Knowledge
  • Perfection
  • Collector