Geotechnical Quotes & Sayings

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition. — Walker Percy

We live in an immense world, whole universes of taste and touch and scent, of voices commingling in the light, and dying away with the common dread that stands at every man's door. Yet we perceive and remember this world only as it creates those single fragments of experience: moments of everyday kindness, or self-sacrificing love, or unthinkable brutality. — Bruce Holsinger

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me. — Mel Brooks

You can't search for the answer to questions that haven't been asked yet. And you can't Google a new idea. The Internet can only tell us what we already know. — Brian Grazer

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it? — Tim Curry

The Drab Age is over. Color is coming into its own again. Until very recently people were literally scared out of their wits by color. Perhaps this was a hangover from our Puritan ancestors. But whatever the reason, brown, grays and neutrals were the only shades considered 'safe.' Now we know that lovely, clear colors have a vital effect on our mental happiness. Modern doctors and psychiatrists are convinced of this! — Dorothy Draper

I prefer ugly things. I prefer things which are surprising. — Dries Van Noten

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. — Euripides

I think most of us look at personal delights as somewhere between minimally important and borderline immoral. We like them, but we're not sure we ought to. We seldom give them a high priority when other demands are competing for our attention. Nevertheless, the soul feeds on simple joys and withers without them ... — Victoria Moran

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor. — Mother Teresa

The fascination of the abomination. — Joseph Conrad

You try to do a technical feature: in front of me I had a strong rider who brakes hard and it's difficult to pass. — Valentino Rossi

Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions. — Robert M. Pirsig