Quotes with needle-work

Quotes 1701 till 1709 of 1709.

  • Thomas Carlyle Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Result! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Simone Weil The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Andre Breton The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Pablo Picasso To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Simone Weil To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Bela Karolyi What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Mark Twain Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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