Paul Mellon famous quotes

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.
-- Paul Mellon

#Horse #Memories #Moving

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.
-- Paul Mellon

#Unique #Emotional #Intellectual

Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a gentleman but who was, in fact, nothing more than a devious adventurer.
-- Paul Mellon

#Mother #Parents Marriage #Gentleman

Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.
-- Paul Mellon

#Creeps #Collecting

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.
-- Paul Mellon

#Giving #May #Damage

Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.
-- Paul Mellon

#Emotional #Oil #Drawing

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.
-- Paul Mellon

#Reading #College #Answers

When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

By reason of his elegance, he resembles an image painted in a palace, though he is as majestic as the palace itself.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Google might be doping the horses.

If Americans want to see results instead of rhetoric, if taxpayers would like solutions instead of sound bites, and hard work instead of horse trading, I suggest you take a short look, and it won't take much longer, at the accomplishments of this Congress.

On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.