"When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again."

-- Stanley Schmidt

#Tired Quotes #Eye Quotes #People Quotes

“It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.”

Source : Dartmouth Convocation on The Great Issues of Conscience in Modern Medicine (1960)
“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press
“I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.”
“We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.”
“Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?”
“We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.”
“Tell others about the truth that sets you free.”
“It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.”

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