Tommy Douglas Quotes

My artistic decision to cast my mother's objects into bronze moves beyond the notions of memorializing her. I've been fascinated for some time with the idea of monumentality and what it means to memorialize. Both of these notions are relevant historically, artistically, and culturally.

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Bill Clinton was not a symbol. People did not invest in him their idea of what America should be or, worse, their pride in what they thought America had become. There was no great moral self-congratulation in having elected a president from Arkansas.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

The statues are no big issue. They are only objects made of mud or stone.

If a building has been condemned or it's left to ruin, I get so upset. I feel something really deeply about it. I don't like to see anything neglected.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.

When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.

Never do anything in life if you would be ashamed of seeing it printed on the front page of your hometown newspaper for your friends and family to see.

If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

Rotten wood cannot be carved.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

Nothing ever grows in this rotting old hole.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.