Carlton Mellick III Quotes

The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.

Carlton Mellick III

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• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Taken
  • Serious

• Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Bad
  • Thing
  • Defined

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • War
  • Bad
  • Evil

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Islam
  • Stable
  • Ordered

• I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rest

• I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Kids
  • Loved
  • Films

• Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Opened

• I'm totally myself.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Myself
  • Totally

• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Country
  • Know

• I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Career
  • Success
  • Change

• I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe
  • Sun
  • I Believe

• Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not - so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?’

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Mood

• 'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Dark

• We need a science to save us from science.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Science

• God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • God
  • Country
  • May

• The amount of racism, sexism, homophobia, and hatred in general that lies beneath the surface of the American dream is astounding and serious.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • American
  • Dream
  • Serious

• Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off; I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.

  

  John Dryden
  • World
  • Boy

• The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart. Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.

  

  Francis Chan
  • World
  • Heart
  • Crosses

• The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for a minimum German peacetime economy.

  

  James F. Byrnes
  • German

• Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Attention
  • Understanding

• The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality.

  

  Carlton Mellick III
  • World
  • Universe
  • Chance