Saturday, January 19, 2008
Today's Famous Quotes
Lyndon B. Johnson
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Laurie E. Colwin
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
Robert Southey
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Sir Arthur Eddington, In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
George Bernard Shaw
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
Analysis kills spontaneity.
Amy Carter
No.
Chinese Proverb
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Robert Millikan
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
More Quotes
Clinton, Obama owe debt to Martin Luther King Jr.
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:03:00 GMT
Detroit News - The book includes more than 120 quotations, not just on the subjects of racism and civil rights, but on faith, religion, non-violence, peace and justice. Most, if not all of what King said, is as relevant today as it was during his lifetime. And some ...
6 Quotes about Eyes
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:51:00 +0000
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won’t tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch’s eyes. And as if this wasn’t ...]
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 7:39 PM
Famous Quotes:
Lyndon B. Johnson
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Laurie E. Colwin
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
Robert Southey
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
Sir Arthur Eddington, In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956
It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset.
George Bernard Shaw
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
Analysis kills spontaneity.
Amy Carter
No.
Chinese Proverb
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Robert Millikan
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
More Quotes
Clinton, Obama owe debt to Martin Luther King Jr.
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:03:00 GMT
Detroit News - The book includes more than 120 quotations, not just on the subjects of racism and civil rights, but on faith, religion, non-violence, peace and justice. Most, if not all of what King said, is as relevant today as it was during his lifetime. And some ...
6 Quotes about Eyes
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:51:00 +0000
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won’t tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch’s eyes. And as if this wasn’t ...]
Quotes about Architecture
Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:02:00 +0000
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of ...] ¶ 7:39 PM
