Hirshhorn Sculpture Quotes

#1. A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn't married, we just think he hasn't come around to making his pick.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. They always lose when it matters (getting it wrong about England in the rugby world cup final 2003).

Bernard Laporte

#4. Making money from money is like aerobatics.

Alisher Usmanov

#5. Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

Barbara Johnson

#6. He had the strange sensation of not knowing who he was, of having traveled off the map of his own existence.

Julie Orringer

#7. Go wherever the facts lead.

Socrates

#8. If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.m. on December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.

Jerry A. Coyne

#9. Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man ... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

Michel De Montaigne

#10. My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines.

Agnes Martin

#11. It's the only way to beat the monsters."
"It's not the only way," I say.
"No?" she asks, surprised.
"You can always become a monster too.

Pierce Brown

#12. I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Lawrence Welk