Quater Quotes

#1. I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

Coco Chanel

#2. In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Johan Huizinga

#3. The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us.

Paul Valery

#4. You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

Steve Martin

#5. People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. I shake my head. "Not my kind of scene. I'd rather be home with my book boyfriend."
"I'll never get what you book sluts get out of a fictional man ... " He shakes his head.
"Boys in books are better.

Danielle Torella

#7. Man - despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments - owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

Paul Harvey

#8. The foolish heart - blinded from reality because of its idols - does not learn from experience.

Timothy Keller

#9. History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

James Redfield

#10. Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Madeleine L'Engle