Ortenberg Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad. — John Ray

There was white in the flesh of his mouth and his cheeks and his hair was white and his eyes had faded, with white in the vague blueness there. — Ray Bradbury

There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what they've done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they'll get something magic. — Adam Rogers

I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier. — Michael Craig-Martin

while courage is not in itself one of the primary virtues, it is the quality that makes the exercise of the virtues possible. — Christopher Hitchens

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our chief weapons are: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and near fanatical devotion to the Pope! Um, I'll come in again ... — Graham Chapman

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. — P. J. O'Rourke

None. They should just go out and photograph and stop talking about it. That's the only way they are going to find themselves. They can't do it in their heads - they have to go out and do it in the camera and get it on film. — Berenice Abbott

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks. — Duane Michals

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. — Anna Deavere Smith

We all feel that we are something other than a being which someone once created out of nothing: from this arises the confidence that, while death may be able to end our life, it cannot end our existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself. — Natalie Goldberg

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel. — Stephen R. Covey

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts. — Sadaharu Oh

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company. — Carson Daly