Mcmansion Hell Quotes & Sayings

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't. — Jay-Z

Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you're timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all. — Saul Bass

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read? — David Markson

The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes. — Carl F. H. Henry

When couples start to get stale, instead of looking to books or movies or other people for their support or romance, they should be coming to each other, ramping things up, making things fun. — Shelly Crane

When we meet someone with a deeper spiritual insight, we think God cares more for them than for us. Yet surely God has the right to make use of one of His creatures to give His other children the food they need. He had this right in the days of Pharaoh, for, in Holy Scripture, He told him: "And therefore have I raised thee, that I may show My power in thee, and My name may be spoken of throughout all the earth." Centuries have passed since He uttered these words and His ways have not changed: He has always used human beings to accomplish His work among souls. — John Beevers

If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster

It would seem that some black people want to say that when you, as a black, become successful, you cease to be black. That's ridiculous. — Clarence Thomas

I mean somebody with the wit and the guts to go and do and create. And, that I believe is what education is all about — Gordon Pask

Cannot a Beast be tamed? — Robin McKinley

I want to be able to run about like the goats do. — Johanna Spyri

I learned a simple lesson about being awesome: always play to the size of your heart, not to the size of your audience. Awesome doesn't let the crowd determine the size of the performance. Awesome gets up for two people or 200. Awesome writes great books even if no one is going to read them. Awesome sweeps the parts of store floors that no foot will ever touch. Awesome can't help itself. Awesome has a huge heart. And that's what it always plays to. The size of the crowd doesn't matter. The applause of the audience doesn't matter. — Jon Acuff