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threeplusfire) wrote2001-02-11 01:40 pm
threeplusfire) wrote2001-02-11 01:40 pm
words on ideas
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin, US clergyman, author
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
-- Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, director
"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
-- Maria Callas, US opera singer
"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, scholar, orator
"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities."
-- Charles DeGaulle, French president, politician, military leader
"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."
-- Walter Lippmann, US journalist, editor, author
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin, US clergyman, author
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
-- Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist, director
"When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping."
-- Maria Callas, US opera singer
"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, scholar, orator
"A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities."
-- Charles DeGaulle, French president, politician, military leader
"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."
-- Walter Lippmann, US journalist, editor, author