Monuments Men Achievements Quotes & Sayings

Mania for exact change can be off-putting for a traveler, what with getting yelled at by cashiers and cab drivers all day long for the crime of paying a sixteen-euro fare with a twenty-euro note. She said that it was nothing personal, that the French are naturally aggressive, especially with one another. Which I suppose is a form of equality, but not the sweet kind experienced by Lafayette. — Sarah Vowell

If you need somebody you can trust, trust yourself — Bob Dylan

I only put down on paper what works for me, and since I started out as a human train wreck, the ways I've learned to be happy also work for others. — Martha N. Beck

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic. — Thomas Jefferson

It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't — Tom McNeal

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ordinary as something special, the sexless as erotic. A technological device without a specific, personalized identity has a subtext: it asserts the value of instrumentality. Its design is a reflection of its role ... The anonymity of these objects is part of what they are: interchangeable commodities whose uniqueness in so far as they possess any is created by what is done with them. Function is an identity. And that identity is something we are encouraged to incorporate into our perception of self, that anonymity is proposed as something to emulate. Whimsy and uniqueness are indulgences. — Nick Harkaway

To belong to something - that's banal. Creed, ideal, wife or profession: nothing but prison cells and shackles. — Pessoa, Fernando

Start being honest with her. Aidan always let her know what he was thinking. And he fairly much treated her like a queen."
Lothaire sneered, "That's the worst bloody advice I've ever heard!"
Brandr bowed his chest. "And why's that, leech? She cared for Aidan once - she will again."
"Precisely. She cared for Aidan," Lothaire said. "I knew of Aidan the Fierce - no mortal could kill that many of the Horde without my hearing about it. And I know that he was a bold, blond Viking who was like a god among men. Women wanted him and men wanted to be him." He sighed.
"Reminded me of myself. — Kresley Cole

For know that all the inferior Creatures when hurt do cry and send forth the complaints to their Maker or grand Fountain whence they proceeded. — Tom Tryon

Time makes the ordinary extraordinary and the extraordinary ordinary. — Kevin Focke

My mind has changed. My strength has not. — Kamahl

I don't know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There's nothing enriching, spiritually. — Hilton Als

When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down. — Frederick Lenz

The fact is, when I look in the viewfinder, if I do see it as a picture, I'll do something to change it. Because, in the end, the pictures that you see when you're working are the pictures that you know already. Either somebody else's made them, or you've done it already. I'm not interested in that. (quoted in MOMA 2001: — Jane Tormey

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt