Baba Beli Quotes & Sayings

I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country's good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body! — Pearl S. Buck

The Mona Lisa, the Mona Lisa....Leonardo had eye trouble....Art couldn't explain it....But now we're safe, since science can explain it. Maybe Milton wrote Paradise Lost because he was blind? And Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony because he was deaf... — William Gaddis

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

The planetary perspective provides a kind of out of body experience for us - hovering in orbit and watching ourselves sleepwalk through a slow disaster of our own making. Now, can this experience help us to shake ourselves awake? For virtually all of its history Earth has evolved without us, and we have always seen ourselves as autonomous actors on a passive planetary backdrop. But now we are beginning to see that our futures - those of humanity and of planet Earth - are tightly conjoined. If human civilization is to persist and thrive we will need a completely different view of our planet, and of ourselves, in which we acknowledge both our deep dependence and our increasing influence. — David Grinspoon

To a toad, what is beauty? A female with pop eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and a spotted back, — Voltaire

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better. — Fred Allen

I just feel like it's so amazing every few years when I'm not making a film to act and basically go back to film school and just watch other filmmakers work and try to be a part of somebody else's vision. So I feel like you do use two very different parts of your brain, and it's great to be able to jump back and forth. — Sarah Polley

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer. — Louis Zamperini

We know that we will die, but we believe it will take an eternity until it actually happens — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Love those who love you. Love those who love you not. Love those who hate you. Love those who hate you not. Love them all until they love you back, and when they love you back, LOVE THEM MORE! — Abhishek Kumar

One eare it heard, at the other out it went. — Geoffrey Chaucer