Kincir Tambak Quotes & Sayings

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself ... It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices. — George Santayana

Tell Mrs. Hudson there will be five for supper. If I am not back by eight, I will have no doubt been arrested. In that case, of course, there will be four. — Lyndsay Faye

My dad played fiddle as well. — Robert Plant

I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building. — Frank Gehry

Death lasts only a moment, but we think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, - Mais on y pense chaque instant) — Charles De Leusse

I'm not against thinking; I'm only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed. — Scott Westerfeld

It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even in art movies, sex always seems to be treated negatively. Why does it always end in disaster? — John Cameron Mitchell

A mind may know a thing, the spirit may embrace it, but the voice that chatters in the head clings ever to shameful beliefs. — Ki Longfellow

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. — Augustine Of Hippo

If you know a lonely tree, go and visit it even if it takes miles to walk there! Because lonely tree is a great monument of strength! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel. — Maria Semple

Instead of 'counterrevolutionaries,' liberals' opponents are called 'haters,' 'those who seek to divide us,' 'tea baggers,' and 'right-wing hate groups.' Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals 'liberals'-and that makes them testy. — Ann Coulter

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer. — Matt Taibbi

All our lives long, every day and every hour, we are engaged in the process of accommodating our changed and unchanged selves to changed and unchanged surroundings: living, in fact, is nothing else than this process of accommodation; when we fail in it a little we are stupid, when flagrantly we are mad, when we give up the attempt altogether we die, when we suspend it temporarily we sleep. — Samuel Butler