Sotheir Quotes

#1. Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the world, or sort of curating things out of the world and putting them into books.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those easy speeches that comfort cruel men.

Timothy Garton Ash

#4. I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people ... I met a guy who knew a bond trader at Pressprich, and he got me to meet him and the guy that ran their sales department, Jack Collin.

Kenneth Langone

#5. We pity the poor heathen who worships a god of stone, and yet we worship a god of gold. Where

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Veil

#7. When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do. A. C. Dixon

John Piper

#8. He is not ashamed of what he has been or done: a man makes his mistakes, he tells them, a man suffers as he must suffer, but the readiness is all.

Ian McGuire

#9. The cause of freedom is not the ...

Anna Julia Cooper

#10. To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

Herbert Spencer

#11. Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members - the last, the least, the littlest.

Roger Mahony

#12. Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Jerry Saltz

#14. I thought he was an angel in black clothes, but in fact, he is the demon in person,"
~Emily

Pet Torres