Kirchsteiger V Llan Quotes & Sayings

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'. — Alistair Cooke

Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands all alone.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring. — William Alexander

Someone leaves only for someone else to come. — Paulo Coelho

I find that there are two kinds of books; the ones that make you want to read more and those that make you want to write more. — Harmann Pitts

Non-cooperation with tyrants is a duty. — Mahatma Gandhi

There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Today is my grandfather's birthday."
"How old is he?"
"Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being. — Charles M. Schulz

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward. — Derek Jeter

Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time. — Tina Brown

Middle age is not the beginning of decline, but a time to reach for the highest in our selves. Middle age is a pause to re-examine what we have done and what we will do in the future. This is the time to give birth to our power. — Frank Natale

Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose. — Vilfredo Pareto

Is your underwear purple, too? — F Scott Fitzgerald