Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Monday, March 18, 2013
14 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Herding Dog Rounds Up Friends for a St. Patrick's Day Beer
Quite the clever and witty take on getting ones friend to the bar...
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Monument Valley Sunrise to Moonrise
Beutiful time lapse photography of Monument Valley, Utah - Valley of the Rocks.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Yellow Lab Loves Little Boy with Down Syndrome
This is probably the sweetest animal video I've seen. Dog is so gentle and caring with this little boy...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
16 Great Quotes From Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
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