Strozzi Institute Quotes & Sayings

Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. — John Guare

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief. — Morris L. West

You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. — James Lane Allen

Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems. — Amit Kalantri

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason. — William Godwin

It is day by day that we go forward; today we are as we were yesterday and tomorrow we shall be like ourselves today. So we go on without being aware of it, and this is one of the miracles of Providence that I so love. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

Lost ages are neither more nor less profound than the one we live in right now. — Steven Erikson

Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many of them, but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blazing blue of the other flowers, it had a bloom and elegance which made it a thing of the greatest delight. — Beverley Nichols

As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die. — Richard Rohr

The number of things he thought of saying all at once nearly suffocated him. — C.S. Lewis

I wush for his own sake that he'd have a big steaming cup of calm the hell down. — C.J. Daugherty

Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck — Toba Beta

You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one. — Ned Overend