Quotations · 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

Published by the Editor in People, Yevgeny Prigozhin

Tags: 1900s, 2000s, Businessman, devil, politics, Russian

2018-0105

Beauty conforms to the demands of the spirit.
Mark Rothko

Published by the Editor in Mark Rothko, People

Tags: 1900s, Artist, beauty, New York, New York City, Painter, spirit, U.S.

2017-1106

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

Published by the Editor in Charles Bukowski, People

Tags: 1900s, Author, dull, funny, Poet, Writer

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

Published by the Editor in Arthur Schopenhauer, People

Tags: 1800s, genius, Philosopher, skill, talent

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.

Published by the Editor in Oliver Wendell Holmes, People

Tags: 1800s, ideas, Physician, Poet, polymath, Writer

2017-0827

Excellence has no sex.
Eva Hesse

Published by the Editor in Eva Hesse, People

Tags: 1900s, Artist, equality, excellence, German American, painting, Postminimalism, sculpture

2016-1101

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

Published by the Editor in Christopher Wolfgang Alexander, People

Tags: 1900s, Architect, architecture, D.I.Y., Design theorist, Designer, professor

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

Published by the Editor in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, People

Tags: 1900s, Aristocrat, Aviator, Journalist, leadership, motivation, Poet, Writer

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

Published by the Editor in Jan Becker, People

Tags: 2016, A.I., cars, code, Engineer, robot, science

2016-0123

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.
Donald Trump

Published by the Editor in Donald Trump, People

Tags: 1900s, 2000s, amateur, b. 1946, idiot