Willis Polk Quotes

Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

Willis Polk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: architect
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 3, 1867 - September 10, 1924

Topics

DieRememberLongLivingWillNever

My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!

Jenna Blum

DailyPeopleBackTelevisionCopy

The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

Robert Scoble

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As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Robert McChesney

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Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

Jeanne Moreau

BeautifulPathWhyMayYourCross

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

Romesh Gunesekera

MoneyWritingBookYouNeverEarn

I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension.

Michael Landon

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I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

LifeFutureMorningDayCreative

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

Luc Montagnier

ThinkNowSameHIVWeightI Think

As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.

Jay Parini

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The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.

Jason Alexander

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Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Christopher Hitchens

HumbleIdentityPeopleHelpYoung

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

Cheryl Hayashi

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