Maynards Excelsior Quotes & Sayings

Be sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks. — John French Sloan

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. — Robert M. Hutchins

A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song. — John Wozniak

Here in Florida we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland - the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine. — Walt Disney

I am clever enough to know that I am clever. — Mervyn Peake

If you lose a parent, it never goes away. As a kid, I dreamed about my father coming back for 15 or 20 years. I still do sometimes. — Mike Nichols

In Jack Dempsey's early days he had a fight contract, which paid him two dollars per fight for the fights he won. He received nothing for the fights he lost. Jack Dempsey said that in his early days he was knocked down a lot of times and he usually was tempted to stay down because he knew that no one would hit him again until he started to get up. But Jack was a hungry fighter and he knew that if he was going to eat, he must get up in order to get the two dollars. He tells of one occasion when he was knocked down 11 times in one fight, and 11 times he got up in order to win the $2. — Sterling W. Sill

At Newsweek, I get paid to meet amazing people and write about subjects that fascinate me: fusion energy, education reform, supercomputing, artificial intelligence, robotics, the rising competitiveness of China, the global threat of state-sponsored hacking. — Dan Lyons

There is nothing that isn't beautiful about bread. — Eleanor Brown

When you venture into the unknown stumble and fall, never give up hope for the lord is always with you. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain. — Maya Angelou

If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something. — June Callwood

Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly. — Aguidon

It all comes down to what you truly love doing, and what I love doing is overdubbing and making new sounds out of things that are sometimes quite ordinary on their own, but when you put them together, they make something new
or something that sounds new. Just discovering things like that musically is a pleasure. — Jeff Lynne

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all. — Lois Lowry