Hjelmeland Builders Quotes & Sayings

What is your greatest regret?
Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly. — Matt Damon

How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible? — Rachel

I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. — Anais Nin

There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So on my view there is no reason to suppose anything like ten million colour responses to surface viewed singly. — David Papineau

You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth. — Honore De Balzac

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them. — Edmund Hillary

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond? — Roland Barthes

A bristling fox is better than a deranged, half-shod idiot. — Patrick Rothfuss

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans. — Marv Albert

For he lives twice who can at once employ,
The present well, and e'en the past enjoy. — Alexander Pope

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. — John Dryden

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom. — Margaret Walker

Look, sweetheart, I can drink you under any goddamn table you want, so don't worry about me. — Elizabeth Taylor

Respect by silence is silence by respect.
Petra Hermans
October 23, 2016 — Petra Hermans

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about. — Eric Fischl