Shtick Drek Quotes & Sayings

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this. — Michael Graves

The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can. — John Gardner

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world. — W. Somerset Maugham

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. — David Eagleman

My mother is very religious. She's one of those old ladies that spends her life in the church. She just prays and prays, day and night. We have a very different idea of what religion is. She doesn't understand what my work is about, why I want to make changes in the way we live. She thinks we should be thankful for the little we have and leave well enough alone. I suppose she thinks that if she prays enough, God will come down from the sky with a plate of beans for her to eat.
But I don't think that God say, 'Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine.' No. For me God says, 'Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.' [p. 30] — Elvia Alvarado

Never was he conscious that his thoughts were prayers; only that the prayers were never answered. — William Peter Blatty

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. — Desiderius Erasmus

Bright unused beauty still plaugued her in the mirror. — F Scott Fitzgerald

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy. — Thelma Drake

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

Like the whale who swallowed Jonah, we have engulfed all national dishes known to civilized man and made them in delight, if not in name our own. — Louis Pullig De Gouy

The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts. — Vincent Van Gogh

As she looked in the full-length mirror in her dressing room, she added a few ropes of pearls, pinned a white silk camellia, and draped the Chantilly lace shawl. In that moment, Dana thought of fashion's most enduring icon who created this elegant and alluring style, and the happy personal life that eluded her. Mademoiselle Chanel died in 1971 at the age of eighty-eight while working on her spring collection, but her passion for work did not fill the void of marriage and children. Her success was costly, but clearly the choice of an uncompromising woman determined to achieve greatness on her own. She once said, I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. — Lynn Steward