1340 Collective Quotes & Sayings

I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got. — Rafael Palmeiro

Hang in there. Let me save something, make it, instead of break it — Elise Kova

Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it the smallest, and at the same time the most beautiful of the winged species. — J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. — Lloyd C. Douglas

The whole gestural system of work was also obscene, in sharp contrast to the miniaturized and abstract gestural system of control to which it has now been reduced. The world of the objects of old seems like a theatre of cruelty and instinctual drives in comparison with the formal neutrality and prophylactic 'whiteness' of our perfect functional objects. Thus the handle of the flatiron gradually diminishes as it undergoes 'contouring' - the term is typical in its superficiality and abstractness; increasingly it suggests the very absence of gesture, and carried to its logical extreme this handle will no longer be manual - merely manipulable. At that point, the perfecting of the form will have relegated man to a pure contemplation of his power. — Jean Baudrillard

When an apple has ripened and falls, why does it fall? Because of its attraction to the earth, because its stalk withers, because it is dried by the sun, because it grows heavier, because the wind shakes it, or because the boy standing below wants to eat it? — Leo Tolstoy

What do you say to a man that by his own admission has now soul? Why would you say anything? — Cormac McCarthy

But when it comes to telling stories in a marketing context, you generally want to inspire your audience. — Greg Koorhan