Paul Mellon Quotes

#1. Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well.

Debbie Reynolds

#2. Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.

Paul Mellon

#3. In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

Paul Mellon

#4. Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

Paul Mellon

#5. Money doesn't buy taste, personality, or common decency.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.

Cortney S. Warren

#7. Reflections on Careers in Quantitative Finance

Carnegie Mellon's Steve Shreve is out with an interesting post on careers in quantitative finance, with his commentary on the changing landscape in quantitative research and the implications for financial education.

Paul Ellis

#8. Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.

Paul Mellon

#9. Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries
all living sentient creatures.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#10. How agonizing it was,this life of silence and yearning. Yet how very worth it when his eyes found hers.

Marissa Meyer

#11. The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.

Paul Mellon

#12. It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.

Paul Mellon

#13. When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

Paul Mellon

#14. I feel tears well in my eyes and I can't even stop them from happening. I can't stop anything from happening in my life.

Melina Marchetta

#15. College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

Paul Mellon

#16. There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

Paul Mellon

#17. The way up is a staircase.
The way down is a cliff.

Tablo

#18. A premise of the new city is that we want a society to be as egalitarian as possible. For this purpose, quality-of-life distribution is more important than income distribution. [And quality of life includes] a living environment as free of motor vehicles as possible.

Enrique Penalosa

#19. Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

Paul Mellon

#20. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#21. Drew a mustache on your picture, threw your ring away.

Sam The Sham