Constantin Brancusi Quotes

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

Constantin Brancusi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sculptor
  • Nationality: romanian
  • Birth: February 19, 1876 - March 16, 1957

Topics

EyesWaterThinkRealityFishBody

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

Joan Allen

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You try to take advantage of taking control of the game when you know you may have guys on base and counts aren't in your favor or whatever. You just try to figure out ways to slow the game down to get back to the pace that you want it to be at, to try to get the momentum back on your side.

Matt Cain

ControlGameSlowMomentumYouDown

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

Jeffrey Kluger

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I like to run. I think it's good, you can do it anywhere, you don't a gym, I just think it's really easy to do.

Mia Goth

GoodYou Can Do ItThinkYouGym

One chance can make the rest of your career.

Starsmith

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Politics, to Ariel Sharon, was like a Ferris wheel. But he didn't make do with just staying on the wheel; he did all he could to climb to the top and stay there.

Ronen Bergman

PoliticsClimbWheelTopStayJust

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

Michael Moriarty

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We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.

Lloyd Blankfein

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Everybody can be smart.

Jose Mourinho

SmartEverybody

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

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It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

Peter Stuyvesant

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From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

Tim O'Brien

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