Monument 14 Quotes

#1. Man must learn that his current path is not suitable for Earth, and soon, Earth won't be suitable for Man.

Donald L. Hicks

#2. Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it.

Gene Wolfe

#3. Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which men can decipher in a thousand different ways without ever finding the right answer or the best one ...

Iannis Xenakis

#4. Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

Nadia Bjorlin

#5. The essence of style is how you live your life

Oscar De La Renta

#6. Acting is really important to me, so I think it would be really hard for me to do something I didn't believe in.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#7. Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.

James L. Buckley

#8. My girlfriend and I never let each other forget how much we love each other. It's all about reminding the other person how important and special she is to you.

Tyler Hoechlin

#9. I like a kid who holds nothing back.

Emmy Laybourne

#10. Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it,

Bruce Rauner

#11. What with the pointing and the blue suit, she brought to mind a flight attendant. I expected her to tell me that in the event of an emergency, my brand-new Hecate blazer could be used as a flotation device.

Rachel Hawkins

#12. We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

Russell Hoban

#13. I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

James Denton

#14. For someone who was educated at Princeton and Harvard Law School, Mrs Obama can also plant garden bulbs without looking as if she is handling nuclear waste.

Matt Frei

#15. The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.

David Roberts

#16. I have no riches but my thoughts,
Yet these are wealth enough for me

Sara Teasdale