Spandrels Quotes & Sayings

Oh, her beauty
the tender maid! Its brilliance gives light like lamps to one travelling in the dark.
She is a pearl hidden in a shell of hair as black as jet,
A pearl for which Thought dives and remains unceasingly in the deeps of that ocean.
He who looks upon her deems her to be a gazelle of the sand-hills, because of her shapely neck and the loveliness of her gestures. — Ibn Arabi

It doesn't matter where you live ... It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear. — Mark Cuban

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out. — Lalu Prasad Yadav

We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it. — Craig Benson

Fortune is like a widow won,And truckles to the bold alone. — William Somervile

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy. — Wendelin Van Draanen

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm. — Stephen Jay Gould

You can also make a 10x improvement through superior integrated design. — Peter Thiel

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. — George Eliot

I do shodo magic," Dali said. "I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper and I can't move while I do it. One smudge, and I might kill the lot of us."
Oh good.
"But don't worry." Dali waved her arms. "It's so precise, it usually doesn't work at all."
Better and better. — Ilona Andrews

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did. — Mary Oliver