Pieraccini Religious Statues Quotes & Sayings

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations. — James Mercer

It is unfeeling to speak of the people who cooperate in the production of art works as "personnel" or, worse yet, "support personnel", but that accurately reflects their importance in the conventional art world view. In that view, the person who does the "real work", making the choices that give the work its artistic importance and integrity, is the artist, who may be any of a number of people involved in its production, everyone else's job is to assist. I do not accept the view of the relative importance of the "personnel" involved that the term connotes, but i use it to emphasize that it is the common view in art worlds — Howard S. Becker

Pick up a thing," [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place. — Lita Burke

Why do all these Russian men have to be so devastatingly, frustratingly handsome? — Sherry D. Ficklin

I can never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model of a thing. If I can make a mechanical model, I can understand it. As long as I cannot make a mechanical model all the way through I cannot understand. — Lord Kelvin

Of course a certain number of scientists have to go mad, just to keep the tradition alive. — Matt Ruff

Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know? — Bindi Irwin

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable. — Charlie Munger

Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top. — Jim Goetz

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now. — Debra Wilson