Roach Clip Feathers Quotes & Sayings

You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves ... .On the other hand, if you will make a man of the working creature, you cannot make him a tool. Let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to do anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once. Out come all his roughness, all his dulness, all his incapability; shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause: but out comes the whole majesty of him also; and we know the height of it only when we see the clouds settling upon him. — John Ruskin

Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells. — Deion Sanders

His blue eyes were very dark ... Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night ... — Cassandra Clare

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing. — Nikki S. Lee

Philanthropy is ... greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain. — Henry David Thoreau

Chance determines our lives in important ways. — Gerhard Richter

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive. — Clay Shirky

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb. — Ma Jian