quotes about Great Lyric

“Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.”

“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”

“Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.”

Source : Roger Kahn (2012). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sport”, p.41, Diversion Books

“It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.”

“My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.”

“Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.”

Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

“We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.”

“What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?”

“Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.”

“I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.”