"I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals."

-- Chath Piersath

#Writing Quotes #School Quotes #United States Quotes

“Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.39, Courier Corporation
“I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.”
“AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOMENTARY, PASSIONATE WISH TO GRASP INTUITIVELY AND AT A STROKE ALL THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD-ITS BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, ITS COMPASSION AND CRUELTY, ITS INFINITY AND ITS LIMITATIONS.”
“Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.”

Source : "Voices of German Expressionism" edited by Victor H. Miesel, Tate publishing, London, (p. 18), 2003.
“Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.”
“What labels me, negates me.”
“Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.”

Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan
“So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink.”

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