As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.
JOHN MUIRA deep meaning often lies in old customs.
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One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.
AGNES MARTIN -
A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
ALDOUS HUXLEY -
I’ve not actually been on too many dates.
NIALL HORAN -
Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two ‘languages.’ It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
MARIA MONTESSORI -
I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIAL -
How would you like to get inside that guy’s mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn’t he?
BILL HICKS -
This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.
AI WEIWEI -
Music is life, and life is not a business.
IGGY POP -
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.
BARBARA PYM -
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
I like being by the ocean.
ELLIE GOULDING -
I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS -
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE -
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
STEPHEN KING