"Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press."

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Nate Silver

#Book Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Printing Quotes

“Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

Source : Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)
“As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“Enya never writes a bad melody. That's first and foremost her secret. As she goes along, she'll start changing the dynamics, pushing here and there so that not everything is perfectly in unison. It adds a texture you can acquire only from having different voices. The variations lead to interesting quirks. It's an integral part of the Enya sound.”
“It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.”

Source : John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.14, Northwestern University Press
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.”
“Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.”
“I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 28, 2005.

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