Abrahamse Berkis Quotes & Sayings

I had been working purely abstractly for so long, it was important for me to see whether I was working abstractly because I couldn't work any other way, or whether I was doing it out of choice. — Robert Rauschenberg

Perfection can never be attained by work. — Swami Vivekananda

At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted. — Sugar Ray Leonard

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life. — Dan Kiley

If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name. — Vladimir Nabokov

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one. — William Baldwin

The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China]. — Yang Liwei

The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure. — John C. Maxwell

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt

I always think the best thing about high school is that it's so many years ago. — Kaye Morgan

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies. — Winona LaDuke

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny. — Rachel Kushner

you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips — John Geddes

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything. — Gilbert K. Chesterton