1904 World's Fair Quotes

#1. Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Jose Rizal

#2. To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.

Henry Rollins

#3. A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.

Mitch Albom

#5. The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more particular application. The power of drawing, modeling, and using colors, is very properly called the language of the art.

Joshua Reynolds

#6. I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.

Rick Riordan

#7. If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have a million dollars today. Provided I'd started with a hundred million dollars.

Jon Stewart

#8. The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everthing about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.

Richard B. Livingston

#9. Thanksgiving day was a holiday when everybody in the country was expected to express gratitude to the creator of the universe mainly for food.

Kurt Vonnegut