Mary Corse Quotes

#1. The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

Peter Drucker

#2. Fate and the roads that get placed in front of us. It's like one huge puzzle that ultimately fits in the end.

Gail McHugh

#3. Memory is the worst lender; It lends not until it borrows. And it borrows not unless it is broke at the previous lending.

Ashfaq Saraf

#4. There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there; the other is to distract his mind.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#5. A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space
a place not just set apart but reverberant
and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

Michael Pollan

#6. One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#8. One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

Rosemary Mahoney

#9. Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#10. To give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

Malvina Hoffman

#11. To become successful you will have to get mad about your current situation. After you get mad, get motivated to do something about it.

Jon Jones

#12. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

James Joyce