"I'm always interested in encountering people who are synesthetic and seeing how they experience things."

-- Leni Zumas

#People Quotes #Seeing Quotes

“In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.”

Source : James Boswell (1807). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.309
“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”
“I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.”
“I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.”
“I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.61, Cambridge University Press
“An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long.”
“I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.”
“Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.”

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