Alpern Foundation Quotes & Sayings

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created. — Charles A. Lindbergh

You, right this minute, stand at the growing tip of evolution. The next thing you think, the next action you take, will either create a new possibility for you, or it will repeat the past. — Anonymous

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. — C. A. Bartol

Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable. — Junot Diaz

I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you. — Martin Firrell

Do you want it good or Tuesday? — Jimmy Sangster

The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. — Cyril Connolly

To survive, much less succeed, I learned I could not give myself over to either pleasure or misery in excess. Whatever you felt was not important. To — Alexander Chee