Torcello Apartments Quotes & Sayings

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt

If you can dream, you can do. — Paulo Coelho

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being. — Thomas Aquinas

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner. — David Bowie

When you encounter another person ... it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it ... I am reminded of this precious instruction by my own great failure to live up to it recently ... — Marilynne Robinson

I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.' — Scott Adams

In history, the bleeding
from arbitrary beatings, forced
breedings, and choked-heat
breathing could almost be withstood
by soul-feeding songs sung,
or listlessly hummed
just to go on. — Kristen Henderson

I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn't like being a child. I didn't like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn't like the lack of autonomy. — David Rakoff

I'm a health nut, but when I eat, I go hard. — Kevin Hart

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things. — Claudia Rankine

My classroom is set up to accommodate the different types of assignments students do. Sitting at a single desk the entire class time just doesnt work for this type of class. — Christine Taylor

I don't see that her being cyborg is relevant. — Marissa Meyer