Palozzi Birth Quotes & Sayings

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed. — Paul Rand

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded. — Peter Sellers

I just want to taste what it's like to win in New York — David Wright

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. — George Savile

Even the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances. — Norman Schwarzkopf

You'll have to pardon me," the magus said. "But with your country at war I can't see how any of it really matters."
Standing up, Eugenides pulled the papers from the magus's hands. "It matters, because I can't do anything, anymore, for this country, and it matters," he yelled as he threw the papers back to his desk, "because I only have one hand and it isn't even the right one!" Turning, he picked an inkpot off the desk and threw it to shatter on the door of his wardrobe, spraying black ink across the pale wood and onto the wall. Black drops like rain stained the sheets of his bed.
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Eddis sighed. "Will you sit down and stop shouting?" she asked.
"I'll stop shouting. I won't sit down. I might need to throw more inkpots. — Megan Whalen Turner

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Inevitably. But women, as you may have observed, have no principles. My family don't feel my pangs of conscience. The end being to bring you and Rachel together again, my wife and daughters pass over the means employed to gain it, as composedly as if they were Jesuits." "I — Wilkie Collins

One has to build a fist against anti-Semitism-a first class orchestra will be this fist. — Bronislaw Huberman

If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man. — Marcus Aurelius

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction. — Mariel Hemingway

People who always want to be happy and pursue it above all else are some of the most miserable people in the world. — Henry Cloud

Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture. — Camille Paglia

It was dark inside the apartment, the lights were dimmed completely and the sky outside the bay window was a starless void. It was as though the apartment itself existed within its own empty, inky black bubble. — Charles Hash