Leitmotifs Examples Quotes & Sayings

The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach. — Le Corbusier

Moneyball. As the character played
by Jonah Hill argues convincingly to Brad Pitt's character,
baseball teams often overpay for young, untested talent or big
name players because they don't know how else to set an accurate price. — Grewal

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don't stop until you've filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don't need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends' accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want. — Phil McGraw

Don't try me," Lucian warned in my head.
"Kiss my concubine ass," I returned in his. — Kristen Ashley

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was right on the edge when he stopped in the middle of a perfect combination of tongue and finger action. I groaned loudly. — Audrey Carlan

His kindly rule replaced sin's tyranny. — Anonymous

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein ... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. — Mike Stoller

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. — Annie Dillard

Struggling to be brief I become obscure. — Horace

You don't race cars, you race the rule book — Smokey Yunick

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing. — Bing Crosby

We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in the market is enforced by contract and regulation and law, because morality is understood to be in conflict with the motive force of greed and accumulation. — Michael Pollan

The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future. — E. Leo Foster