"A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it."

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Source : "John Chamberlain, Who Wrested Rough Magic From Scrap Metal, Dies at 84" by Randy Kennedy, www.nytimes.com. December 21, 2011.

John Chamberlain

#Fall Quotes #Feet Quotes #Sculpture Quotes

“That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”

Source : Harry Crews (1998). “A Feast of Snakes: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.”
“The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections of different kinds alternate or overlap or combine and thereby determine the texture of the whole.”
“An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.”
“The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.”
“A few years have gone and come around when we were sittin' at our favorite spot in town and you looked at me, got down on one knee. Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle; the whole town came and our mammas cried. And you said "I do.", and I did, too. Take me home where we met so many years before; we'll rock our babies on the very front porch. After all this time, you and I. And I'll be eighty-seven you'll be eighty-nine, I'll still look at you like the stars that shine. In the sky. Oh, my my my.”
“A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.”
“Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.”

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