"I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!"

-- Oscar Wilde

#Wall Quotes #Talking Quotes #World Quotes

“There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.”
“It turned out to be impossible for me to 'run away' in the sense other American teenagers did. Any movement at all was taken for progress in my family.”
“Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold.”

Source : "Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat" l. 40 (1748)
“I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.”
“Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”

Source : Sol LeWitt (2006). “Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers”, Richter Verlag
“To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.”
“Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.”
“I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.”

Source : "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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