Compositionally Vs Idiomatically Quotes & Sayings

Everyone else on the planet, from the lowest amoebae to the great blue whale, expresses all their component elements in a perfect dance with the world around them. Only human beings have unfulfilled lives. — Nicholas Lore

It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilty of error and are blameworthy. — Niccolo Machiavelli

For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function. — Aristotle.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that. — Conor Oberst

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. — Vince Lombardi

O the grey dull day! It seemed a limbo of painless patient consciousness through which souls of mathematicians might wander, projecting long slender fabrics from plane to plane of ever rarer and paler twilight, radiating swift eddies to the last verges of a universe ever vaster, farther and more impalpable. — James Joyce

You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart ... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless. — Ridley Scott

The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B. — Jon Stewart

She said. "I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it's like any job. You have good days and bad days. — Louis Theroux