"Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

#Taken Quotes #Wind Quotes #Return Quotes

“Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.”
“I want to conquer the world and it seems like my own family is putting a stop to that.”
“The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.”
“Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.”
“With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.”
“Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think we're losing her. I have no choice but to perform mouth-to-mouth." "Don't you dare," I said, my lids still in lockdown.”
“There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result â€¦ in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.”
“We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well!”

Source : Humor & Caricature magazine, June 1995.

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