At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
By: Adolf Loos
Related Quotes
If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends... view
By: Lee Hazlewood
The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm... view
By: Gay Talese
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends... view
By: Erica Jong
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time... view
By: John Barrymore
If I had a nickel for every time I said "Why me?" I'd have probably said "Why me?" more often... view
By: Tom Wilson
Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice... view
By: Bill Watterson
Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?.. view
By: Aeschylus
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time... view
By: Jim Bouton
My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York... view
By: Diane Cilento
I sometimes don't know what songs are about for several years after I've written them... view
By: Justin Hayward
In fact I think now we've reached a point now, where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care... view
By: Lester Bangs
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?.. view
By: Ken Burns