Noades Architect Quotes & Sayings

The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. — William Dampier

Let us reflect that we shall always do God's Will and He will do ours when we carry out that of our Superiors. — Vincent De Paul

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao. — Laozi

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public. — Ezra Pound

Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success. — Rachel Kushner

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places. — Jonathan Swift

A book may be as great a thing as a battle. — Benjamin Disraeli

Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character. — Ben Affleck

Like water leaking through a dam," said Piper.
"Yeah," smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole."
"What?" Piper asked.
"Nothing," he said. "Inside joke. — Rick Riordan

I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl? — Anna Sui

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. — Miroslav Vitous

What are we doing when we brainwash children in schools to cut open their fellow animals? Are we dangerously desensitizing them? Some of the most warped and blunted people I know are those who have gone through training of this sorts. — Richard D. Ryder