Bernini's Quotes

#1. Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

David Hanson

#2. God and Satan play poker with Tarot cards for the soul of an alcoholic sandwich-bag salesman obsessed with Bernini's 'The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.

David Foster Wallace

#3. It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Forever is composed of nows. - Margo Roth Spiegelman

John Green

#5. We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

Richard Meier

#6. One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Frank Gehry

#7. I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.

Natalie Goldberg

#8. The Bible is actually a library of books - some long, some short - written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

Billy Graham

#9. I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be.

Waris Dirie

#10. Her forehead, so high and oval, reminded him of how Shakespeare was supposed to look. He was not certain how to put this to her.

Ian McEwan

#11. I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.

John Waters

#12. Paths to other paths must always be open!

Mehmet Murat Ildan