Contender Robert Lipsyte Quotes & Sayings

To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off. — Dwyane Wade

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life. — Thomas Browne

A designer ... has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous. Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality. — Lester Beall

Shirtless, they'd stretch out in the long grass and take the healing brunt of a noontime sun that gave no clue of the thunderheads it already, in secret, had begun to breed. — Paul Russell

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful. — Pharrell Williams

The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard. — Ernst Stuhlinger

Lincoln's significance lies in his not hesitating before the most severe means, once they were found to be necessary, in achieving a great historic aim posed by the development of a young nation. — Leon Trotsky