Maria Sibylla Merian Quotes

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

Maria Sibylla Merian

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: April 2, 1647 - January 13, 1717

Topics

NatureTimeArtVictoryConquer

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Anna Deavere Smith

TimeInterestingYouKnowMinds

I can remember the World's Fair in New York in 1964; I was three.

Stanley Tucci

New YorkWorldRememberI CanThree

The funny thing is that I almost find it more difficult now to take a still picture than to be behind a moving camera. I'm just so much more inspired and comfortable and confident when I have that whole operation going. I feel more connected. Snapping a moment doesn't seem relevant to me anymore.

Steven Klein

FunnyMomentMeMovingConfident

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

Tom Sharpe

KnowledgeDangerousLittleLethal

Getting back to 100 per cent is one thing, but working at 100 per cent is something else entirely. And given one of my main goals has always been improving my skill set, to do that, I need to be working out at 100 per cent.

Robert Whittaker

GoalsBackSkillNeedImprovingOut

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

Mike Birbiglia

RidePeopleYouKnowUpAnswer

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

Mohsin Hamid

LifeLivePoetrySenseDealDecent

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Loni Anderson

TodayGovernmentLegalCigarettes

I've done a lot of kale as well as broccoli. I love it. Asparagus I couldn't stand before, but now it is part of my meals. All three of those are greens that I never used to eat. Now, a smoothie for me is nothing but fruits and veggies and vanilla Greek yogurt.

Donald Driver

LoveMeStandDoneThreeNothing

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

Christian Slater

HistoryThinkTraditionHollywood

I think it's really cool that someone could have ovaries and the presidency. Growing up, I thought I could never be president because I was black and female. Now I know that's wrong. Within my own lifetime - that's different. Within my lifetime, interracial couples are more common. Within my own lifetime, biracial folks are able to claim that.

Courtney A. Kemp

CoolGrowing UpBlackThinkThought

I know that a lot of our troops like country music. I would love to do anything I could to just help them out.

Cole Swindell

LoveMusicHelpCountryKnowOut

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