The LORD will open for you his rich storehouse, the heavens, to give the rain of your land in its season and to bless all your und...ertakings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; ...it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refres...hed, ready to draw from the same storehouse--always open, always full, always abundant--new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes ... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul--its gaiety or its sadness.... As with our perishable flesh ... talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.... The modern university looks forward..., and is a factory of new knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Money talks" because money is a metaphor, a transfer, and a bridge. Like words and language, money is a storehouse of communally ...achieved work, skill, and experience. Money, however, is also a specialist technology like writing; and as writing intensifies the visual aspect of speech and order, and as the clock visually separates time from space, so money separates work from the other social functions. Even today money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber. As a vast social metaphor, bridge, or translator, money--like writing--speeds up exchange and tightens the bonds of interdependence in any community. It gives great spatial expansion and control to political organizations, just as writing does, or the calendar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The invention of photography provided a radically new picture-making process--a process based not on synthesis but on selection. T...he difference was a basic one. Paintings were made--constructed from a storehouse of traditional schemes and skills and attitudes--but photographs, as the man on the street put, were taken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »