Quickstep Flooring Quotes & Sayings

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats. — Mahatma Gandhi

I couldn't think of anything less appealing than molding the minds of tomorrow's leaders. — Al Franken

I think of my chastened surprise when Mabel played with a paper telescope. She is real. She can resist the meanings humans give her. But the condor? The condor has no resistance to us at all. I stare at the attenuated, drifting image on the gallery screen. It is a shadow, a figure of loss and hope; it is hardly a bird at all. — Helen Macdonald

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can. — Pete Townshend

Day by day as autumn tanned the valley around us, now with bright frost weather, now with rain carrying the first chill of winter, my father stayed in the dusk of his grief. That sandbagged mood, I understand now, can only have been a kind of battle fatigue-the senses blasted around in him by that morning of death and the thousands of inflicting minutes it was followed by. — Ivan Doig

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. — Michel De Montaigne

How many prison years in the years since Christ! — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear — Frank Lloyd Wright

she freely admitted that of old she had been a little mad, and now she pretended to be perfectly sane. — Henry James

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. — Dante Alighieri