Ellick Hsu Quotes & Sayings

Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. The varying degrees of culture are measured by the greater or less precision of the standards. Where there is little such precision, these standards rule existence only grosso modo; where there is much they penetrate in detail into the exercise of all the activities. — Ortega Y Gasset

If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up. The effect of a tawdry, unarranged, and over-decorated environment works for the deterioration of taste, just as meager and barren surroundings starve out the desire for beauty. Against such odds, conscious teaching can hardly do more than convey second-hand information as to what others think. Such taste never becomes spontaneous and personally engrained, but remains a labored reminder of what those think to whom one has been taught to look up. — John Dewey

Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal. — Mary Cantwell

There is a word which sums up this 'separate but equal' mentality - Apartheid. And we all know how separate and how equal that was. — Christina Engela

I don't shake at the site of alcohol anymore. I don't feel the need for it. If anything I'll get stoned. I always told myself if it got to the point that it was affecting my songwriting and music that I'd stop. And it did get to the point. — Julian Casablancas

The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap. — Billy Sunday

Always live up to your standards - by lowering them, if necessary. — Mignon McLaughlin

Pain is weakness leaving your body. — Bruce Lee

Without a proper view of God there cannot exist a proper view of man. — John F. MacArthur Jr.

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me. — Anne Stuart