Mattila Construction Quotes & Sayings

The hardest thing was launching 'OK!' magazine; the easiest thing was Channel 5. 'The Express' was my defining moment because our turnover was less than £100m with 150 employees. — Richard Desmond

My own seal." "Imitated." "My photograph." "Bought." "We were both in the photograph." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an indiscretion. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Just what did the Greeks seek in probing nature? They sought no material gain and no power over nature; they sought merely to satisfy their minds. Because they enjoyed reasoning and because nature presented the most imposing challenge to their understanding, the Greeks undertook the purely intellectual study of nature. Thus the Greeks are the founders of science in the true sense. — Morris Kline

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. — Charles Baudelaire

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. — Ang Lee

I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is. — Claude Monet

Mom had the kind of love for her that you could feel, like it was part of the atmosphere — Peter Abrahams

My parents walked around me on tiptoe, afraid of hurting me. But I knew how disappointed they were. All of a sudden the daughter they had been so proud of was a returnee from a mental hospital. — Haruki Murakami

A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as rewarding. — Mason Cooley

I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day ... — Julio Cortazar