Scheibner Construction Quotes & Sayings

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. — Frank Stella

GoodReads: Do people still ask you about your mental health?

Susanna Kaysen: Well, they used to a lot. "Are you still crazy?" was how people put it. And I would say, "Yes, but I'm older, so I'm more used to it." It's familiar. You've been there, you've done that, and it's gone away. I think the fact that you can feel like it's the end of the world and you're going to kill yourself and yet there's some part of you that says "this has happened before." And by the time you get to the point where you can say "this has happened 137 times before," it's better than saying "this has happened four times before." So as you get older, there's a little ironist or cynic or somebody inside you who says, "Yeah, uh-huh. Right, OK, I've heard that, I've heard that. — Susanna Kaysen

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. — Jay Griffiths

Doubt makes us reaffirm what we believe. — James Cook

Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will. — Billy Graham

If you can truly believe what you are pretending to do is really happening, then your audience will believe it, too. — Richard Osterlind

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true. — Jay Asher

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly. — Peter F. Hamilton

Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others. — M. Scott Peck

What little private tutoring I'd done, to raise my standard of living, soon convinced me that the transmission of knowledge was generally impossible, the variance of intelligence extreme, and that nothing could undo or even mitigate this basic inequality. — Michel Houellebecq

Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user. — Keith Rabois

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people. — Sally Phillips