Robert Fishman Quotes & Sayings

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times. — Jaquelin T. Robertson

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class — Pat Conroy

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero. — Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays. — Rick Pitino

That's the kind of thing people always thinking. They always got to see some sort of scary thing in everything. — S.D. Crockett

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with ... — Gerard K. O'Neill

If you lose who you are, what do you have? — Marilyn Manson

A boy who could make his mother feel special inspite of his own ordeals is the boon from God in lieu of some good deed. — Adhish Mazumder

A man is never too young to kill, never too wise, never too strong, but he can damn well be too rich. — Pierce Brown

I think Ken should grow some balls and tell Barbie to piss off, Matt said after Ashley waved an accusing finger in Darren's (leg-puppy) face, then stomped off to a table beside a window. — Rebekkah Ford

I believe that you are sincere and good at heart. If you do not attain happiness, always remember that you are on the right road, and try not to leave it. Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself. Avoid fear, too, though fear is only the consequence of every sort of falsehood. Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He was the man I mentioned who was obsessed by the idea that he had cancer, although X-rays had proved to him that it was all imaginary. Who or what caused this idea? It obviously derived from a fear that was not caused by observation of the facts. It suddenly overcame him and then remained. — C. G. Jung

Equilibrations
If you walk back
and forth
through a puddle pretty
soon
you wet the whole
driveway but of
course dry
the puddle up. — A.R. Ammons

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting. — Robert Charles Wilson

I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda. — Thomas De Maiziere