Peter Behrens Quotes

#1. until only infinity remained of beauty

John Ashbery

#2. Sun on my shoulders and the wind at my back, bound and determined to get back on track to where the heart is..where it's been all along.

Tim McGraw

#3. Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#4. The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes in their repertoire have application.

Joseph Epstein

#5. Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

Peter Behrens

#6. Quoting E. B. White is the easiest way I know of to fool people into thinking that I am perceptive, witty, and wise.

Peter Behrens

#7. But it speaks for an inner world - and again this is evident in Murakami - that sits in a different dimension from the smooth-running, flawlessly attentive, and all but anonymous machine that keeps public order moving forward so efficiently in Japan.

Pico Iyer

#8. The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

Robin Tunney

#9. Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most characteristic portrait of a period and the most severe testimony of a nation's intellectual status.

Peter Behrens

#10. Social Security is a tax.

Todd Akin

#11. Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

Peter Behrens

#12. The instant is gone, time has carried us into the realm of memory, it was like this, no, it was not, and everything becomes what we choose to invent.

Jose Saramago

#13. Marriage is a mystery.

Peter Behrens

#14. I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

Antonio Banderas

#15. Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

Peter Behrens

#16. We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

Donald Miller