Perrotin Quotes & Sayings

spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought. — Mark Twain

Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive. — William Wordsworth

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here. — Frederick Busch

Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder. — Jodi Picoult

One of the most important things we do is we've organized our stores and our workforce into teams. — John Mackey

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better. — Joanne Greenberg

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide ... — A.J.P. Taylor

In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love. — Warren Farrell

At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're good at and the customers that are already successful. — Jim McDonough

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious. — Will Rogers

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. — Sophocles

He may be doing it for you in this Advent season - graciously and tenderly frustrating you with life that is not centered on Christ and filling you with longings and desires that can't find their satisfaction in what this world offers, but only in the God-man. What a Christmas gift that might be! Let all your frustrations with this world throw you onto the Word of God. It will become sweet - like walking into paradise. — John Piper

In the exhibition at Galerie Perrotin, they have the Sarajevo painting - I think it's very good to nail down this story of Pol Pot and other people, not all dictators but most of them. — Erro

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed. — Lyle Lovett