Ako Nga Pala Quotes & Sayings

I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions. — Piet Mondrian

As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning. — Charles Kellogg

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position. — Frans De Waal

In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you're both contrarian and right. — Reid Hoffman

He is a man who understands the power of the German soil, who feels its dark prehistoric vigor thudding in his very cells. — Anthony Doerr

You're very welcome, Nina Zenik. You may repay me in the customary way." "Waffles?" "Lots of them. — Leigh Bardugo

The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and — Will Durant

A photograph can, by the addition of an unimportant spot of color, become a photomontage, a work of art of a special kind. — John Heartfield

Geography is the study of earth as the home of people — Yi-Fu Tuan

That was the danger of pretending to be someone else all the time. If you do it long enough, eventually you start to become that person. — Tracy Rozzlynn

When it comes to the selections, I heard several observers claim that the Academy was embracing "nostalgia" by honoring The Artist and Hugo. Give me a break! Hugo represents cutting-edge storytelling by a world-class director - in 3-D, no less. The Artist dares to revisit a form of cinema that was abandoned in the late 1920s. The Academy members admired these films for making the past seem immediate and relevant. That has nothing to do with nostalgia; it has everything to do with great moviemaking, which is what the Academy Awards are all about. — Leonard Maltin

My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene. — Shia Labeouf

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were. — Sarah Dessen

I think everybody should have the choice [with drugs] the same as helmets. You should be able to say whether you want to wear one or not. By making drugs illegal, the government is intervening into our lives a little too much. — Sonny Barger

The really terrible thing about being young is the triviality — Ursula K. Le Guin