Unknown Masterpiece Quotes & Sayings

When you work in TV long enough, you tend to get a little jaded with different things you have to deal with. — Willie Geist

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. — Robert Fortune

Mars knew that love wasn't all red-paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy. Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone. Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong. — Randy Russell

The long conflict between Israel and Palestine has, for better or worse, become the world's conflict. It permanently destabilizes the Middle East, blocks the settlement of urgent crises, and intensifies looming threats to the West. — Stephen Kinzer

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20. — Dennis Ritchie

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}
I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one. — Gloria Steinem

If I feel like King King, I'll throw like King King. — Jack Morris

I hate it when people talk about Tony Curtis and say: 'His real name was Bernie Schwartz ... ' That was just the name that he was given at birth. It's not the person he lived his life with, and became. — Nicolas Roeg

The more things we can get kids to do correctly off the court, the more they will do correctly on the court. — Mike Jarvis

Beauty without intelligence is a masterpiece painted on a napkin. — Unknown

The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again ... just singing one song, the national anthem. — Hugh Jackman

I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page. — Terry Tempest Williams

The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant. — Wei Wu Wei

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight! — Myles Munroe

Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury's orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton's mathematics predicted. In 1915, Einstein used his new equations to recalculate Mercury's trajectory and was able to explain the discrepancy, a realization he later described to his colleague Adrian Fokker as so thrilling that for some hours it gave him heart palpitations. — Brian Greene

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing. — Anton Chekhov

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. — Eddie Vedder