Roycroft Bronze Quotes & Sayings

Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them. — Richard Strauss

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. — Richard Rogers

If both Gansey and Noah had been dying on the ley line at the same time, why had Gansey been chosen to live and Noah been chosen to die? By all rights, Noah's death was the more wrongful one: He had been murdered for no reason. Gansey had been stung by a death that had been dogging his steps for more than a decade.
"I think ... Cabeswater wanted to be awake," Noah said. "It knew I wouldn't do what needed to be done, and you would."
"It couldn't know that."
Noah shook his head again. "It's easy to know a lot of things when time goes around instead of straight. — Maggie Stiefvater

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive. — Chris Grabenstein

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, 'objectivity', 'truth', it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes. — Paul Feyerabend

Learning between grown-ups and kids should be reciprocal. The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it. — Adora Svitak

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. — Michel De Montaigne

And loving a new person might even eventually dull the pain of having lost the people you have loved before, even if it didn't happen as quickly as you wanted it to. (p 99) — Bonnie Jo Campbell

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. — Gertrude Stein

It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more. — Brian Staveley

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results. — Bill Parcells