People Archives · Universal Quotation

The Americans are very impressionable people; they see what they want to see. I have a lot of respect for them. I am not upset at all that I ended up on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them see him.
Yevgeny Prigozhin

2018-0105

Beauty conforms to the demands of the spirit.
Mark Rothko

2017-1106

I often can’t tell if people are at peace or just being dull.
Heinrich Karl “Charles” Bukowski

2017-1024

Talent is like the marksman who hits a target that others cannot reach, genius like one who hits a target beyond where others can even see…
Arthur Schopenhauer

2017-0920

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

2017-0827

Excellence has no sex.
Eva Hesse

2016-1101

…most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people.
Christopher Wolfgang Alexander

2016-1025

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

2016-0815

You really can’t think of a self-driving vehicle as merely a car—fundamentally, it’s a robot on four wheels that looks and feels like a car.
Jan Becker