Ellin Quotes

#1. Form ever follows function.

Louis Sullivan

#2. The most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

Ellin Devis

#3. Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.

Ciputra

#4. there can be no greater happiness than for a person to learn to read and write." "And

Ellin Carsta

#5. No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.

Stanley Ellin

#6. The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him ... Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power.

Cliff Asness

#7. The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

Ellin Devis

#8. Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Pearl S. Buck

#9. In my life, my parents wanted me to be a musician, I was supposed to go to Vienna to study piano. But this train wanted to go in another direction.

Golshifteh Farahani

#10. The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

Stanley Ellin

#11. Men of all lands and climes are brothers.

Joseph Hertz

#12. There are some sleeping dogs that should be left to lie; there are some questions that should not be asked.

Stanley Ellin

#13. In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

Mary MacLane

#15. The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

Stanley Ellin

#16. There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.

Ellin Devis

#17. Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

Allen Drury

#18. Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

Eric Baum