"A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains."

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Source : Hippolyte Taine (1875). “Notes on Paris”, p.58

Hippolyte Taine

#Ideas Quotes #Iron Quotes #Fixed Quotes

“No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.”
“I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.”
“There is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honor; all have their part to play.”
“Poetry contains love and holds it in high esteem, even though love always humiliates it by using it merely as a soothing after-shave lotion.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org
“In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died.”

Source : William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.21
“To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.”
“What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.”
“But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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