Pierrats Lexington Quotes & Sayings

Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we have been divorced from all practical life. Ideas, if you like, are fermenting, and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands. Anyway, there's no practicality. Practicality goes well shod. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me. — Alfred De Musset

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. — Henri Matisse

Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived. — August Wilhelm Von Hofmann

When a person is only half an ass like me, and not a complete one, she senses certain things. — Michael Ende

A Drinking Song Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh. — W.B.Yeats

I thought equality was non-negotiable. — Lady Gaga

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better ... — Sydney J. Harris

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. — Fran Lebowitz

Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body. — Bell Hooks

No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov