Hugh Kretschmer Quotes & Sayings

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped. — Alvar Aalto

As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. — Livy

The things about which we most often jest are generally, on the contrary, the things that worry us but that we do not wish to appear to be worried by, with perhaps a secret hope of the further advantage that the person to whom we are talking, hearing us treat the matter as a joke, will conclude that it is not true. — Marcel Proust

It's really important to like what you're wearing. It's pretty clear when I don't like what I'm wearing, and it's pretty clear if you got dressed for other people. Even if you're not looking the the best you can, or maybe your outfit isn't spot on, if it looks like you got dressed and you like it, you'll probably look cool anyway. — Kristen Stewart

Passion is about the calling. Passion is the motivator behind the mission. Passion focuses us on "being" and not on "doing. — Wendy K. Walters

The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the undocumented immigrants who already live in our communities, work for our businesses and want to give back to the country that they call home. — Alan Grayson

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it - religious fanaticism. — Clarence Darrow

Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form. — Jessica Savitch

Depression was a successful adaptation to ceaseless pain and hardship [ ... ] feeling bad all the time and expecting the worst had been natural ways of equilibrating themselves with the lousiness of their circumstances. Few things gratified depressives, after all, more than really bad news [ ... ] Grim situations were Katz's niche the way murky water was a carp's [ ... ] he might well have started making music again, had it not been for the accident of success. He flopped around on the ground, heavily carplike, his psychic gills straining futilely to extract dark sustenance from an atmosphere of approval and plenitude. — Jonathan Franzen

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing. — Tadao Ando

We have developed a culture of self-interest, self-gratification, self-aggrandizement, and utter selfishness. We have institutionalized and disseminated these values as never before in human history. — Michael C. Hill

No path is wholly rough. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market. — Murray Rothbard

...Gradation; gradation; and then a sudden leap... — Andre Gide