Chermayeff Wilkinson Quotes

#1. Whenever armed forces ... are used, the idea of combat must be present ... The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#2. All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Francis Bacon

#3. If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

Jack Lemmon

#4. Private schools have been attacking public schools and really I was just a pawn in their game. I speak at schools of all ages on a regular basis.

Gorilla Zoe

#5. If I have a near-beer, I'm near beer. And if I'm near beer, I'm close to tequila. And if I'm close to tequila, I'm adjacent to cocaine.

Craig Ferguson

#6. A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.

Eric Maisel

#7. You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

Mark Cuban

#8. I can party like a twenty-four-year-old but it takes me almost a week to recover.

Amy Poehler

#9. Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.

Roy Blount Jr.

#10. She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

Ada Leverson

#11. In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically.

Frederick Lenz

#12. I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

Nick Cave