Patchen Oaks Quotes & Sayings

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. — Richard Powers

Too much wit makes the world rotten. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. — Pierre Corneille

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing. — Aristotle.

Hanging from every corner, above every window, standing on every shelf and tabletop, were dozens of handmade birdcages. Nomi had crafted them all, mostly out of old fishing twine, scraps of nets, and chicken wire. Woven in between the bars of the cages were bits of seashells, crab shells, pebbles, and driftwood she had scavenged along the beach. In a pinch she had made a few out of old clothes hangers she had scissored apart and woven together with strips of a negligee or shirt. Each one was personal, each one was unique, each one was a story — Brooke Warra

There are many things that go to make up an education, but there are just two things without which no man can ever hope to have an education and these two things are character and good manners. — Nicholas Murray Butler

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful. — Joan Smalls

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. — Jenny Holzer

They have extended the arrogance and insularity of the worst kind of academic professionalism beyond the academy. Generally they show no fear or even slight anxiety at the responsibility they have assumed; they have no sense of awe in the face of the questions they have raised, and no sense of humility in the face of the traditions which they condescendingly dismiss. They are aggressively without a sense of mystery and without a suspicion that anything might be too deep for their narrowly professional competence. They mistake these vices for the virtues of thinking radically, courageously and with an unremitting hostility to obscurantism. — Raimond Gaita

Faith is something you decide to do, not something you feel like doing." So — Neil T. Anderson

In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland. — Vanessa Mae

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists. — Paul Wellstone