Duchamp Wiki Quotes & Sayings

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy are these who lose imagination: They have enough to carry with ammunition. Their spirit drags no pack, Their old wounds save with cold cannot more ache. Having seen all things red, Their eyes are rid Of the hurt of the colour of blood for ever. And terror's first constriction over, Their senses in some scorching cautery of battle Now long since ironed, Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned. — Candace Ward

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame. — Tyler Cowen

I am in chains. Don't touch my chains. — Franz Kafka

I think my parents were high when they named me. — Jolene Blalock

There is no yesterday or tomorrow; there is only this moment. Twenty-four hours a day. Seven days a week. Three hundred sixty-five days a year. — Philip Toshio Sudo

But it made her smile, to see it, to see how the pen formed the shapes and the shapes told a story of a name. — Lois Lowry

Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable? — Margaret Mitchell

Just because you love someone" she said "that doesn't mean your lives will fit together. — Rainbow Rowell

Oversimplified moral certainties - always requiring hostility, always potentially violent - isolate us from mercy, pity, peace, and love and leave us lonely and dangerous. — Wendell Berry

How terrible the need for God. — Theodore Roethke

Our humbling experience of sin is a mark of maturity. To be humbled by sin is to be marked by grace. Christian holiness is not the eradication of the sin nature, at least not on this side of eternity. — Tony Reinke

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. — Clarence Thomas

That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life. — Rachael Ray

The goodness you do when you are very happy is not as valuable as the goodness you do when you are very unhappy! — Mehmet Murat Ildan