Chairpersons Quotes & Sayings

We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

University departments wanted to hire sober, rational researchers and teachers. You were allowed revelatory, apocalyptic experiences only after you had tenure. — Richard Tillotson

If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings. — Ken Rockwell

Hank spoke. "I'm sorry."
"You said that."
A small laugh escaped his mouth. "Yeah, but I didn't mean it then. — Aria Kane

You can survive in New York without much, if you're careful. You have to make your own food at home, and don't buy a lot of clothes. — Ilana Glazer

Increased spending, growing government debt and overreaching regulations are stifling job creation and economic growth. — Joe Craft

I can't hear anything, John. Please, would you put on your headphones? — Connie Sellecca

They say that in D.C., all the museums and the monuments have been concessioned out and turned into a tourist park that now generates about 10 percent of the Government's revenue.
The Feds could run the concession themselves and probably keep more of the gross, but that's not the point. It's a philosophical thing. A back-to-basics thing. Government should govern. It's not in the entertainment industry, is it? Leave entertaining to Industry weirdos
people who majored in tap dancing. Feds aren't like that. Feds are serious people. Poli-sci majors. Student council presidents. Debate club chairpersons. The kinds of people who have the grit to wear a dark wool suit and a tightly buttoned collar even when the temperature has greenhoused up to a hundred and ten degrees and the humidity is thick enough to stall a jumbo jet. The kinds of people who feel most at home on the dark side of a one-way mirror. — Neal Stephenson

The height of human desire is what wins, whether it's on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium. — Woody Hayes

I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation. — Rand Paul

Peace is only a thought away. — Jill Bolte Taylor

I say 'art' advisedly, for art is undefined, undefinable, and without limits. I can use the word without fear of misusing it, for it has no exact meaning. There are as many meanings as there are artists. — Robert A. Heinlein

The more you love, the more you can love
and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. — Robert A. Heinlein

And he was beginning to feel that discouragement which is engendered by a life of repetition, when no interest guides nor expectation sustains it. — Gustave Flaubert

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place. — John Burnside

The dark emotions everyone hid in their depths weren't all of who they really were. They weren't their true selves. — L.J.Smith