William John Swainson/life

Famous quotes containing the words william, john and/or life:

    We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.
    —J. William Fulbright (b. 1905)

    The kind of scientist who has no room for faith in his universe is rather old-fashioned nowadays.
    Robert D. Andrews, and Nick Grindé. Dr. John Garth (Boris Karloff)

    Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing—to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)