P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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I am trying to intensify my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air – trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.
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Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.
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We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.
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“When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows.”
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Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.
