"I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity."

-- Dick Cavett

#Thinking Quotes #Age Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes

“Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.”
“I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you're kind of saving the world.”

Source : Source: www.thestarscoop.com
“Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.”

Source : c.1470 The Testament of Cresseid, stanza 65.
“Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.”
“Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR officers.”

Source : "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.
“Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have a different perspective. It's not just an advertisement with one single message that has some authority, political or not.”

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“Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.”

Source : Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.204, Pushkin Press

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