Engbretson Hall Quotes & Sayings

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. — Zaha Hadid

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again ... — Claude Monet

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad?
What do you think?
Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here.
Yeah.
You don't think that's so great.
It's okay. — Cormac McCarthy

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners. — Phil Robertson

The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality. The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he once dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal. But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them. Like any poor, pitiable shell of an actor, he comes to see that he has played so many parts that there no longer is himself. — John Edward Williams

The physical space serves as an intellectual gymnasium with multiple, flexible spaces that accommodate a variety of learning tasks. — American Association Of School Librarians

Because our civilization is woven of so many diverse strands, the ideas which any one group accepts will be found to contain numerous contradictions. — Margaret Mead

Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope. — Marilyn Monroe

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century. — Eleanor Catton