Bishop Lancelot Andrewes Quotes & Sayings

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. — Georg Simmel

[Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't? — Will Cuppy

Every day, in the USA, our radar instruments capture objects of form and composition unknown to us. And there are thousands of witness reports and a quantity of documents to prove this. — Gordon Cooper

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both. — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Worldly Wisdom
Do not stay in the field!
Nor climb out of sight.
The best view of the world
Is from a medium height. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly. — Joseph Conrad

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them. — Viggo Mortensen

Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia. — Jan Morris

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth. — Rumer Godden

I think it's my job as a young actor to watch adult actors and take tips on the way they work. — Tye Sheridan