Olifanten Posters Quotes

#1. Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Vitruvius

#2. If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

Ken Robinson

#3. I mean there's that awesome quote where Joanne Woodward said, 'Acting is like sex: you should do it, not talk about it.'

Kristen Stewart

#4. speak to the condition" of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself. His message must be not only timeless but timely. He must speak to his own generation.

A.W. Tozer

#5. The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

Henry Bessemer

#6. I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

Pam Grier

#7. I had also once come across a phrase about a book "lying like a poleaxed wildebeest in the middle of my life." It was my life that was lying in the middle of my life like that, like a poleaxed wildebeest.

Rivka Galchen

#8. An author really ought to have nothing but flowers in the room where he works.

Gaston Leroux

#9. Never count your chickens before you can stick a fork into them.

Christian McKay

#10. I only ask your help, for which I have nothing to give in return."
"Nothing? You call your theory nothing"
"Weigh it in the balance with the freedom of one single human spirit," he said, turning to her, "and which will weigh heavier? Can you tell? I cannot.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.

Ann Coulter

#12. I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.
[Mexico City concert, June 2011]

Chavela Vargas