Su Dongpo Quotes

#1. If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

Eva Zeisel

#2. I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Carl Sagan

#3. Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand.

Goran Ivanisevic

#4. You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

Robert Greene

#5. Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

Pope Francis

#7. Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.

Margaret Murray

#8. I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

Ilona Andrews

#9. I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.

Jessica Valenti

#10. Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

Herodotus

#11. The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. You're as handsome as Apollo, you don't pick your nose, you're not stingy and you don't talk too much. There's nothing at all the matter with you!' announced Pupa in the tone of a doctor who was a hundred per cent sure of her diagnosis.

Dubravka Ugresic

#13. States that scrap their state-run Obamacare exchanges are admitting they've wasted millions of dollars in federal grants. It's only fair that states have to pay American taxpayers and the federal government back for their total incompetence.

John Barrasso

#14. Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.

Abbe Pierre

#15. A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

Katherine Dunham