Quotes About Brunelleschi

#1. Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.

Filippo Brunelleschi

#3. I propose to build for eternity.

Filippo Brunelleschi

#4. The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

Filippo Brunelleschi

#5. Your Crystal Clear vision should provide you a glimpse of a new universe and turn your excuse for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of resources for success.

Farshad Asl

#6. The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned.

Herb Caen

#7. I knew what death meant now. It was conversations cut off.

Jo Walton

#8. The sheep vs. goats analogy is presumptuous. I define the world in general to be the people who populate it without assignment of an either/or category in presumption of their final and ultimate choice as to Who and Whose Jesus is".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#9. What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

Christian Harrison

#10. I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

Nora Roberts

#11. It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

Tracey Ullman

#12. I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.

Mellody Hobson

#13. I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

T. S. Eliot

#14. I wanted to keep things as normal as possible for the trainees, so I led my usual morning class. I called it Magic Problem-Solving 101. The trainees called it Whatever Works.

Rick Riordan

#15. Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.

Filippo Brunelleschi

#16. Questions that have no right to go away are those that have to do with the person we are about to become; they are conversations that will happen with or without our conscious participation.

David Whyte

#17. What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

George Soros

#18. It was a practical trip, straight across the country. No pit stops at canned meat museums, no national parks. Just a whole lot of Wynebraskowa.

Kari Martindale

#19. Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

Filippo Brunelleschi

#20. To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

Filippo Brunelleschi

#21. If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.

Seth Godin

#22. Love never dies, it become the wealth of the universe when we die.

Debasish Mridha