"Sometimes you don't realize how dependent you are on just a few people, and if they disappear, suddenly you can be thrown on your own resources, which may be limited, and you're really in a fix. So I think that's authentic to the experience that it might be very lonely."

-- Whit Stillman

#Lonely Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.”
“We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it.”
“Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.”
“But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.”

Source : Marston Morse, Raoul Bott (1981). “Selected papers”, Springer Verlag
“I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.”
“The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.”

Source : Ogden Nash (1942). “Good intentions”, Little, Brown
“It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.”
“Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.”

Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2008). “The Samurai's Garden: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

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