Mechling Barge Quotes & Sayings

To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil. — Arthur Schopenhauer

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable). — Elisabeth Elliot

Note for a Textbook

The question is never answered, never resolved,
The circle of love and anger never squared,
The stubborn instinct not translated yet
In decimals, accurate and predictable
In union dues or payroll cuts or blood...

Always a symbol lost in the lovely theorem,
A fraction that will not fit in the sum of the system,
A jutting thrust in the graph of the commissar's forecast,
A troublesome blank in gauleiter's careful accounting,
An awkward hitch in the plans of the second vice-president.

The answers worked on the slate are never the same,
And the answers proved in the back of the book are wrong. — Charles Bruce

I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful. — Emma Stone

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events. — Tracy Austin

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections. — Helen Van Wyk

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. — Julian Barnes

The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance. — John Ruskin

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. — Anais Nin

So I shamelessly say, no, I want [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far-left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed? — Rush Limbaugh

Commercials capture your attention, that's all. — Calvin Klein

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me. — Simone De Beauvoir

Stop driving yourself - and everyone else - crazy thinking about how to make yourself successful. Start thinking about how you're going to make everyone around you successful. — Keith Ferrazzi

There are bound to be deniers. Whenever you set up a thesis there's bound to be somebody who comes the opposite way ... like Holocaust deniers. — Pete Postlethwaite