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[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
[Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres. — Henry Adams

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line ... — Ani DiFranco

And Ruth was the last person to whom a sensible Indian would hand a weapon. — Caroline B. Cooney

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them. — David Almond

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters. — J.K. Rowling

Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it. — Nora Roberts

Do what makes you want to get out of bed every day. There's no sense in doing something that makes your life mundane. — Lola Stark

Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner. — Francine Rivers

What about study hall? Shouldn't I go to the library?
"What for, Ms. Lord?" Mr. anderson said. "You're with me — Ilsa J. Bick

I've noticed that women often have a tendency to explain their thinking first ("I came across a study that said . . .") rather than get right to the point. By the time they describe the actual idea, they've lost people's attention despite how good the concept may be. Then — Kate White

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction. — Willem Dafoe

It's a struggle but you have to keep going. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Trying to be white? What the hell does that mean? I've never understood that. How could anyone be white when they aren't white? Seems like a simple enough thing to prove, right? Hold out your arm next to someone else's arm and do a simple swatch test. Of course, what people mean when they say that is that there's some kind of authentic black experience that the accused isn't properly expressing. But what is the authentic experience? Clothes that wannabe gangbangers wear on the street? Hood style? What's authentic about that? For that matter, is fashion even a good marker of authenticity or race, anyway? Aren't clothes a second skin you wear over your real skin to obscure who you really are? Can they also express who you really are? — Ahmir Questlove Thompson