Hamline Canvas Quotes & Sayings

I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me. — Steve Albini

I study nature so as not to do foolish things. — Mary Ruefle

Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment. — Andrew Bird

It's been said that the Magi, wise men, gazed up into the night skies, following a star. But they were not looking for a star. They were looking for hope. Hope of a new world. Hope of redemption. Light is not found in dark places, & hope is not found looking down or looking back. May you always look up. — Richard Paul Evans

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion. — Ernie Fletcher

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much interested in taking things away from the wealthy and creative. — P. J. O'Rourke

You can't praise what you don't prize. — John Piper

What can we not endure,
When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure? — Magdalen Nabb

History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell. — Ken Akamatsu

But obviously if there was no concept of ownership there'd be no concept of stealing, would there? As long as there's one starving child in the world, all property is theft. — Fuminori Nakamura

The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning ... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the esoteric fear of simple beauty for its own sake - I am deeply concerned with these manifestations of decay. Gene Smith's work validates my most vigorous convictions that if the documentary photographs is to be truly effective it must contain elements of art, intensity, fine craft and spirituality. All these his work contains and we may turn to his work with gratitude, appreciation and great respect. — Ansel Adams

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy, but as the Holy Scripture shows, it was the sun and not the earth which Joshua ordered to stand still. — Martin Luther

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition. — Gina Barreca

The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin. — Hesiod