Lewis Mumford Quotes
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
Quotes to Explore
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
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I hate alarms. If they go off I get really tetchy. I hate them. They just get me going, I'm hyper at the best of times, but they drive me mad.
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I hope to play well and get better and better.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'
