"If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off."

-- Arthur Boyd

#Art Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates,”
“To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.”
“Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?”
“I'd seen her name on a call sheet for so many years and been called Jo so many times. If people said Jo in the street, I used to turn round because I was so used to being called Jo for five years on Spooks. You do get so used to being called something. Often, it was someone calling their young son... but sometimes it was people calling after me because they recognised me from the show. So, it was a big deal when it happened and it was quite an emotional end.”
“Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.49, Open Road Media
“Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.”
“Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.”
“The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.”

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