Sesquicentennial Commemorative Half Dollar Quotes & Sayings

A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'. — Theodor W. Adorno

When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line ... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were. — Robert Gober

Life does often get in the way of one's reading. — Helen Simonson

It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry. — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise. — Kevin DeYoung

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas. — David Suzuki

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us. — John Lennon

[ ... ] the body is what we lean toward,
tensing as it darts, dancing away.
but it's the voice that enters us. even
saying nothing. even saying nothing
over and over absently to itself — Tracy K. Smith

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me.
No hope, no harm; just another false alarm — Morrissey

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law. — Patrick Leahy

Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it. — Robert Charles Wilson

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. — Anne Carson

People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do. — John Hodgman

Other people are human. They're sensitive. They can't devote their whole life to metals and engines. You're lucky- you've never had any feelings. You've never felt anything at all. — Ayn Rand