Taschen Verlag Quotes

#1. A woman who knows what she wants, Adelle always told me, is likely to receive it.

Alice Hoffman

#2. One of the critical skills in creative work is note-taking. Practically all the great geniuses of our culture, ranging from Leonardo to Edison, from Hemingway to Picasso, have been almost pathological note-takers.

Lauri Jarvilehto

#3. Deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

Jonathon Porritt

#4. In the United States, 97 percent of those classified by the Census Bureau as poor own a color TV.

Peter Singer

#5. At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

Allen Johnson

#6. I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

Katherine Waterston

#7. Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

Confucius

#8. When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

Cameron Russell

#9. Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed,
No austere faith based on ignoble fear
Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace.
Unless the humblest creatures on the earth
Are bettered by thy loving sympathy
Think not to find a Paradise beyond.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#10. Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.

Sarah Brightman

#11. If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

Margaret Heffernan

#12. No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene

#13. Compassion has no place on any battlefield ... magical or otherwise.

A.G. Howard

#14. The whole world will be transformed into Sathya Sai Organisation and Sathya Sai will be installed in the hearts of one and all.

Sathya Sai Baba