Michelangelo on Imagination
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
- Michelangelo
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
- Bette Midler
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
- Will Rogers
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
- Graham Greene
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
- Epicurus
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
- George Bernard Shaw
Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
- Carl Sandburg
Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
- Jacques Chirac
We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he’d just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.
- Stansfield Turner
Don’t take life seriously because you can’t come out of it alive.
- Warren Miller