Joseon Quotes

#1. It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons.

Richard Paul Evans

#2. All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

Mary Pipher

#3. I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

Lance Armstrong

#4. By believing your work is a 'gift,' it radically changes what you create. I think this is a revolutionary idea. It's no longer about client approval or a paycheck, but aspiring to make work that has meaning and purpose in your life and for your audience.

James Victore

#5. If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Karel Capek

#6. I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

Neil Oliver

#7. Every time I left for the battlefield I promised this to myself; I must live to see you again. In order to protect you, I promised myself that I must win.

Gwanghaegun Of Joseon

#8. Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

Linda Ronstadt

#9. He had not escaped the guilt, nor forgotten it, but how pale it seemed in light of all he had suffered for love of his brother and his brother's wife in these past few years.

Leigh Bristol

#10. Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

Mark Twain

#11. While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.

Jerry Saltz

#12. I must go down to the seas again
to find where I
buried the hatchet with Yesterday.

Janet Frame

#13. This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

{The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not originated by Charles Darwin, though he discussed Spencer's 'excellent expression' in a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace (Jul 1866).}

Herbert Spencer

#14. The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

Henry Steele Commager