Rassman Building Quotes & Sayings

About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me. — Nate Berkus

All men are tragic ... All men are comic ... Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat. — G.K. Chesterton

Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often. — Clark Ashton Smith

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. — Victor Hugo

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth. — Polly Adler

Hey, I'm not a total idiot," said Nagasawa. "Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don't happen to take that as the premise for everything else, though. I'm going to give it a hundred percent and go as far as I can. I'll take what I want and leave what I don't want. That's how I intend to live my life, and if things go bad, I'll stop and reconsider at that point. If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit." "Sounds like a pretty self-centered way to live," I said. "Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are." "That's probably true," I said. — Haruki Murakami

There were two important lessons I learned from Dad's 1964 campaign, though they didn't sink in until many years later: 1) Things always look darkest just before it goes completely black 2) Somewhere when God shuts a door, he shuts a window too. And then you're totally fucked. — Stephanie Miller

And in the same way, again, are not the thoughts of men and women in the agony of death often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, internal, intestinal aspect, towards that 'seamy side' of death which is, as it happens, the side that death actually presents to them and forces them to feel, a side which far more closely resembles a crushing burden, a difficulty in breathing, a destroying thirst, than the abstract idea to which we are accustomed to give the name of Death? — Marcel Proust

God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption. — Mahatma Gandhi

Capitalism does not merely mean that the housewife may influence production by her choice between peas and beans; or that plant managers have some voice in deciding what and how to produce: it means a scheme of values, an attitude toward life, a civilization - the civilization of inequality and of the family fortune. — Joseph Alois Schumpeter

I'd never been a big fan of disappointment. — Michelle Rowen

I love doing the radio plays, creating a whole world with just the voice, and I'd love to be back on stage, too, at some point. — Sophie Winkleman