Travaux Publics Quotes & Sayings

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. — Bridget Riley

That's what I said the first time I was called a hero. But you're going to find that hero is a title other people give you; you don't really get a say in the matter. Now me, I'm the kind of hero that slays the dragon. I overthrew the ArchTyrant and ended the age of Ragnarok..." he trailed off, his eyes distant. "...of course, ever since then I have been unable to reform the beauracrats and the nobles. Despite my best efforts, they beat me in the end." He cleared his throat and looked up. "Now you, on the other hand, you are a different kind of hero. You take the dragon home with you. You feed it, teach it, tame it, befriend it. You remove the threat by changing its heart, rather than actually slaying the beast — Aaron Lee Yeager

To feed our people we must first feed our soil — Olusegun Obasanjo

How can I be expected to be trapped for the rest of my life by a man frozen in time? — Alice Sebold

The only way in which Darwin's data made sense was to suppose that species battled for survival, and that evolution came when one slight adaptation of a species proved more successful than another in the battle: a process which he named 'natural selection'. There was nothing benevolent about the providence which watched over the process. Reason was served her notice as the handmaid of Christian revelation. — Diarmaid MacCulloch

Something lay in the shadow at the foot of the ridge, as stiff as the stick of the fallen rocket; and the man who knew too much knew what is worth knowing. — G.K. Chesterton

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling

If I worship the fact that I don't worship anything, amongst other things what I'm worshipping is denial. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't like the sister's face. She should only show her back. — Karl Lagerfeld

Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance. — John Tilbury

When you watch the game, be a student of the game. — Don Meyer

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife. — Virginia Postrel

Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like. — Madeleine L'Engle