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“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
Walt Whitman
“Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartbreak when I was writing my first album, I didn't mean to but I just did.”
Adele
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
John Adams
“It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.”
Ansel Adams
“When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.”
Ansel Adams
“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”
Marcus Aurelius
“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
Edmund Burke
“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”
Richard Bach
“I don't mean to be funny.”
Yogi Berra
“Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.”
Les Brown
“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.”
Les Brown
“Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.”
William Seward Burroughs
“Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.”
Ambrose Bierce
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
Edward Estlin Cummings
“You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”
Stephen Covey
“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
Joseph Campbell
“Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.”
Joseph Campbell
“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.”
Ray Charles
“Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.”
Dustin Hoffman
