"High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit â€” reptiles and eagles."

-- Jean le Rond d'Alembert

#Animal Quotes #Eagles Quotes #Two Quotes

“Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.”
“Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?”

Source : "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: ‘Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration’". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.
“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.”
“Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.”

Source : Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent (1859). “A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences”, p.318
“Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.”
“Your outer world of attitudes, wealth, work, relationships and health will always be a reflection of your inner attitudes of mind.”
“Football is a game of tomorrows.”
“The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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