Mervin Mayo Quotes & Sayings

Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered. — Iris Apfel

... had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done. — Louisa May Alcott

Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created. — Ludwig Von Mises

He knows about damage the way a woman does. He knows, the way a woman knows, how to carry on as if nothing's wrong. — Michael Cunningham

I can remember dancing around living room with my two sisters to the music of Paganini and Mozart. I can still remember my dad combing the newspaper, circling all the free concerts in town, and on the weekends, we would go as a family. — Lindsey Stirling

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water. — Viktor Schauberger

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. — Emile Durkheim

When somebody says or does something you like. Amen. — Jerry Spinelli

A man once asked me, what's punk? I kicked over a trash can and said that's punk. He kicked over a trash can and then asked me again, Is that punk? I replied no. That's just trendy. — Billie Joe Armstrong

A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things. — Jeff VanderMeer