George Being Mean To Lennie Quotes & Sayings

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists. — Paola Antonelli

Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus. — Charles Eisenstein

Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe. — Anne Rice

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend her way, seemed now a power but to protect the suffering and uphold the weak, and this she did, not alone in hovels but in the brilliant court and world of fashion, for there she found suffering and weakness also, all the more bitter and sorrowful since it dared not cry aloud. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life. — Celia Cruz

I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a songwriter and wrote for myself, which I still do, and I also wanted to communicate with my audience. — Paul Weller

If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration. — Kelly Bryson

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do. — Vivien Leigh

There is nothing impossible in the world, because the word impossible says I'm Possible. — N.a.

They're never far from us, you know." "Who?" I asked. "The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again. — William Kent Krueger

We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither. — Aldo Leopold

Every word, every gesture is now loaded with ambiguity, nothing can be taken at face value. We speak to each other from a safe distance, pretending all the years we soaped each other's backs and pissed in front of each other never happened. We don't use any of the baby talk, code words, or short hand gestures that had been our language of intimacy, the proof that we belonged to each other. — Amy Tan

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful - Sandor Clegane, The Hound. ASOIAF — George R R Martin

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective. — Aristotle.

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography. — William J. Mitchell