Directiva Tva Quotes & Sayings

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me. — Henry David Thoreau

There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me. — Wayne Newton

Put a symbol, or language of some sort, in a painting and it will be noticed by the viewer whether or not they can read that particular language. — Mike Svob

The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river. — Vitor Belfort

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. — Francis Bacon

A wise one determines his own fate. — Janet Morris

Good design is not an applied veneer. — Raymond Loewy

I was halfway up the stairs when the doorbell rang. "Dash it all!" I said. There was nothing I hated more than being interrupted when I was about to do something gratifying with chemicals. — Alan Bradley

Those sentimental radio hits, with their artificial naivete and empty crudities, are the pitiful remains and the maximum that people will tolerate by way of mental effort; it's a ghastly desolation and impoverishmment. By contrast, we can be very glad when something affects us deeply, and regard the accompanying pains as an enrichment. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Enid was meant for him and she had come for him; he would never let her go. She should never know how much he longed for her. She would be slow to feel even a little of what he was feeling; he knew that. It would take a long while. But he would be infinitely patient, infinitely tender of her. It should be he who suffered, not she...When he was with her, he thought how she was to be the one who would put him right with the world and make him fit into the life about him. — Willa Cather

She's too drunk to remember all the words, but it doesn't matter - he already knows them. It's his song, the one he was named for, and she's sung it since he was a baby. He knows all about carrying the world on your shoulders, all about letting her into your heart, all about making the sad song better. — Eleanor Henderson

The theory of the "wisdom of crowds" says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much more likely to arrive at the best opinion than if you just listen to one specialist. — Simon Kuper

I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake. — Jane McGonigal

They say that when you're really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street. — Daniel Handler

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind. — Cheryl Tiegs