Menil Collection Quotes

#1. One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

Shannon A. Thompson

#2. There is never only one, of anyone

Margaret Atwood

#3. GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber

#5. Sick?
What's sick? Who is 'well'? Do you imagine, if you or I were minutely examined, we would be one hundred percent 'well'?

Joyce Carol Oates

#6. The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

Marcus J. Borg

#7. No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.

Andre Ward

#9. When I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity. That was my first kick.

Herman Melville

#10. In the year 2052, it's not love but hate that unites the world.

T.S. Pettibone

#11. For me, time does not seem to pass; rather, it surrounds me. Thus I do not feel removed from memories, nor do they lose their intensity. I have keen recollections not because I have a good memory - I simply retrieve them from the ether. When memories have no velocity, they are very much at hand.

Peter Ruperte Lighte