David Lilienthal Quotes

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

David Lilienthal

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• When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Money
  • House
  • First

• I am just an ordinary Catholic.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Catholic

• 'I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,' I said. 'I want to be myself.''Don’t be a child.'I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. 'What?''You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I’m tired of your whining.'

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Up
  • Done
  • Universe

• My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Life

• Hannah leaned against the wall. "Mind if I call shotgun?" Since you're carrying one? Feel free.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Feels

• Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

  

  Alexander Grothendieck
  • Structure
  • Fascinated
  • Mathematical

• I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Time
  • Family
  • Play

• Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Girl
  • Boy

• The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff

• There's no such thing as a bad Picasso, but some are less good than others.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Picasso

• It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Truth
  • Mine
  • Maxim

• Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Voice
  • Cat

• A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

  

  Chris Carmack
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Industry

• Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

  

  Eric San
  • Playing
  • Pushing
  • Deck

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I have two lives, and all the problems I might have, I feel like I drop them once I step on to the match court.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Problem
  • Feels
  • Might

• The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

  

  David Lilienthal
  • Pushing
  • Utopia
  • Mischievous