Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion spend?

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

Tadao Ando

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction.

Rob Pike

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.

Willie Mays

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Adolf Loos

Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.

W. I. E. Gates

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

Frantz Fanon

It's better to swim in the sea belowThan to swing in the air and feed the crow,Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

Benjamin Franklin

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

Thomas Secker

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Thucydides

I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

Shay Mitchell