Recapturing Lost Quotes & Sayings

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. — David Chipperfield

I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected. — Georgia O'Keeffe

I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo. — Lucia Perillo

I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.' — George Foreman

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way. — Stephen Covey

I saw Gabriel, like a maiden, or like the moon amongst the stars. His hair was like a woman's, falling in long tresses ... He is the most beautiful of Angels ... — Ruzbihan Baqli

The tragedy is that every brain cell devoted to belief in the supernatural is a brain cell one cannot use to make life richer or easier or happier. — Kay Nolte Smith

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.. — Tom Hodgkinson

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things. — David Cronenberg

A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s is more and better production. And this can only be brought about by increased saving and capital accumulation. — Ludwig Von Mises

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. — Walter Gilbert

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. — Moshe Safdie

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions. — Hans Selye

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. — Rudy Rucker

Such incidents usually move me to try to find relief in the building of a maxim. It is a good way, because if you have luck you can get the venom out of yourself and into the maxim; then comfort and a healed spirit follow. Maxims are not easy to make; they do not come in right shape at the first call; they are creatures of evolution, of development; you have to try several plans before you get one that suits you, or even comes fairly near to suiting you. — Mark Twain

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything. — Samuel Beckett