3640 Wilshire Quotes

#1. Giacometti knows that space is a cancer on being, and eats everything; to sculpt, for him, is to take the fat off space, he compresses space, so as to drain off its exteriority.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#2. We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I
In a Berkshire bar. The big workman
Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe
All the evening, from his empty mug
With gleaming eye glanced towards us:
"I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

C.S. Lewis

#3. When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#4. The best -- or chasing it -- is the worst enemy of the good.

Tomas Sedlacek

#5. From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

Tom Chatfield

#6. Men are every bit as gendered as women.

Jackson Katz

#7. Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

Simon Sinek

#8. If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#9. My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.

Erma Bombeck

#10. For being human, we remember and forget. We stray and return, fall down and get up, and cling and let go, again and again. But it is this straying and returning that makes life interesting, this clinging and letting go - damned as it is - that exercises the heart.

Mark Nepo

#11. You just have to do what you know is right.

Daniel Berrigan