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Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a...

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James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

James McNeill Whistler: If the man...

If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of...

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Walter Gropius: Architecture begins where...

Walter Gropius: Architecture begins where...

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Source: To Harvard Department of...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: I just invent,...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: I just invent,...

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Controlled time is...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Controlled time is...

Controlled time is our true wealth.

Source: In

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Ellen Swallow Richards: The environment that...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The environment that...

The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the...

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Pablo Picasso: Every act of...

Pablo Picasso: Every act of...

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Source: In A Whack On...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has...

Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has...

What one has to do usually can be done.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Paul Sweeney: Self-delusion is pulling...

Paul Sweeney: Self-delusion is pulling...

Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.

Source: In...

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Dwight D Eisenhower: A sense of...

Dwight D Eisenhower: A sense of...

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things...

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Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and...

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Naomi Weisstein: Except for their...

Naomi Weisstein: Except for their...

Except for their genitals, I don't know what immutable differences exist between men and women. [U]ntil social...

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Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Thurgood Marshall: Sometimes history takes...

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Source: c. 1983.
-- Thurgood...

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Potter Stewart: I shall not...

Potter Stewart: I shall not...

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material [pornography] . . . but I know it when I see...

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Jacques Barzun: In any assembly...

Jacques Barzun: In any assembly...

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a...

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Pearl Buck: When hope is...

Pearl Buck: When hope is...

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

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Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human...

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Agatha Christie: We owe most...

Agatha Christie: We owe most...

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness-either enforced or...

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Charles A Beard: The mills of...

Charles A Beard: The mills of...

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

Source: Four...

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Omar Bradley: This strategy would...

Omar Bradley: This strategy would...

This strategy would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong...

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