Mackworth Vintage Quotes & Sayings

new interpretation of the sudden end of Job's — Mark Larrimore

Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it. — Johannes Brahms

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. — Ludwig Von Mises

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment. — Martin Buber

Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas. — Jack Welch

For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the most important tools missing is the ability to create silences, as you can in poetry by how you fashion the lines and breaks within the lines and stanzas. — Pattiann Rogers

Through the very culture of representation through form, we have come to see that the abstract - like the mathematical - is actually expressed in and through all things, although not determinately. — Piet Mondrian

I was among the first elected officials in the country to endorse gay marriage. The political wise guys said I was taking a big chance: Boston is a heavily Catholic city. So I conducted a focus group with Frankie, a neighbor who runs a garage: ME: What do you think about this same-sex marriage? FRANKIE: If they want to be miserable, let 'em do it. I knew I was safe after that. — Thomas M. Menino

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home. — Gilbert K. Chesterton