Joshua Quotes

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.

Healthcare is yet to be transformed by technology.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing.

Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

...who we are and what we do it is fundamentally a function of what we remember.

The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.

Respond to others about your work with equanimity.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.

I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until I stand before my Lord for judgement.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

I am not of Virginia blood; she is of mine.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

The task of life is to face sacred moments.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

How wise are they that are but fools in love!

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations because I could document what happened that way.

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

Good work in the building of my vessel stood me always in good stead.

I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!

After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.

Jesus, deliver me from the spirit of witchcraft!

I see myself as an explorer more than a storyteller.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

Certainly, nothing can be more simple than monotony.