Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.


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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
HENRY ROLLINS
My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me...
HENRY GRUNWALD
I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that becau...
HENRY ROLLINS
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
HENRY KISSINGER
We can still do a stop motion feature for about one-third of what it costs Pixar or DreamWorks or Bl...
HENRY SELICK
The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.
HENRY MILLER
I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to...
HENRY ROLLINS
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the ...
HENRY MILLER
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
HENRY JAMES
Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
HENRY MILLER
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY KISSINGER
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
HENRY KISSINGER
In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he alrea...
HENRY ADAMS
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free i...
HENRY ADAMS
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to ...
HENRY ADAMS
Morality is a private and costly luxury
HENRY ADAMS
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops.
HENRY ADAMS
Intimates are predestined
HENRY ADAMS
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
HENRY ADAMS
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
HENRY ADAMS
Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined...
HENRY ADAMS
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a stea...
HENRY ADAMS
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not...
HENRY FIELDING
One fool at least in every married couple.
HENRY FIELDING
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
HENRY FORD
Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for ...
HENRY FORD
If you think you can do it, or you think you can't do it, You are right.
HENRY FORD
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - int...
HENRY FORD
It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.
HENRY IV
Law is king of all.
HENRY ALFORD
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can ...
HENRY FUSELI
He had dropped upon a seat halfway down the nave and, again in the museum mood, was trying with head...
HENRY JAMES