Im Pei Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do. — Ben Mendelsohn

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now. — Dinaw Mengestu

To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes. — Anna Kamienska

Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies. — Henry Ward Beecher

My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives. — William Shakespeare

I take a lot of satisfaction in trying to make my land as self-contained as possible, its own little mini environment. Minimal outputs; minimal inputs. — John Grogan

Allaah Tabaraka wa Ta'Ala {The Absolute Divine UnNamed} DOES NOT test to "See" if you're worthy of Jannaah or Jahannam ! If only one can perceive this, one knows it is one that places oneself in either station !! — AainaA-Ridtz

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable. — April Gornik

Some people want to believe they can be an instant hero in eveyday life. A real hero is someone that stands by your side and appreciates you everyday! — Jose N. Harris

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy. — William Shawcross

When anybody pays you to be creative, you're very lucky. — Donald Glover

In theater, we know a scheduled season months in advance. — Allison Tolman

You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep. — John T. Scopes

I don't feel safe around a lot of people. — Jessica White

My Soul is my Guide,
for my Soul is of that Abode
I will not Speak of the Earthly,
I am of the Unknown. — Rumi