Intuitions Jewelry Quotes & Sayings

WHEN HE WAS a young man Billy Beane could beat anyone at anything. — Michael Lewis

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. — Neil Gaiman

He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He felt now that his surroundings explained him. — Willa Cather

I am the eldest child; it's lonely at the top. — Claire Denis

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. — Oscar Peterson

I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks. — Elizabeth Little

If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom. — Mikhail Bakunin

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark. — Rem Koolhaas

The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment. — Meher Baba

Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing). — Mike Schmoker