Bottle Rack Quotes & Sayings

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up ... so the next stage is hard work — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When the obstacles in the world become greater and more complex and seem to be coming from all directions at once, there are two great tendencies in the psyche. One is to simplify and quickly adopt some form of fundamentalism. The other is to accept the multiplicity and the great tension that come from embracing the world as it presents itself. — Michael Meade

Twelve years ago we characterized the scene as poor service, no service, or self-service. Unfortunately, little has changed. As a result, customers understandably hesitate to pay any premium. Profitability therefore suffers, wages stagnate, and workers disengage - creating a downward spiral to yet more miserable service. — B. Joseph Pine II

One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination ... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even. — Marcel Duchamp

And maybe one day we'll look back and wonder how we managed to live in the same house for so long, and never stopped to introduce ourselves. — John Koenig

Petulia liked animals, especially pigs, because they had wobbly noses. Tiffany quite liked animals too, but no one except other animals liked animals as much as Petulia. — Terry Pratchett

Pretend I am as capable as a man? Please, sir, do not value me so little! — Kerri Maniscalco

She chose a bottle of sauvignon blanc from the kitchen rack and uncorked it. "These are trying times. There have been others, and there will be more." She poured three glasses. "It's essential that we live while we move through them. — Nora Roberts

We have happy days, remember good dinners. — Charles Darwin

When I was seven, I had to stay home for several weeks because of some ailment, whereupon my father elected to teach me so that I should not fall behind. In fact, he taught me in three months as much as the school taught in two years, so, on returning to school, I was shifted from grade 4 to grade 6. — Arthur Lewis

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous — Albert Einstein

Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient. — Michael Christos Zeis

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant. — Alberto Tomba

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. — Samuel Butler

Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god. — Denis De Rougemont

Feelings of depression; feelings of frustration; feelings of emptiness in the face of all this randomness - done down by the haphazard, yet again. — William Boyd