"There is snobbery in the idea that the modern cult of celebrity has not touched the lofty realm of letters. We are like visitors to a garden or flower show who wander the pathways and do not notice the beautiful flora but instead exchange murmurs about the appearance of the soil."

-- Zia Haider Rahman

#Beautiful Quotes #Flower Quotes #Garden Quotes

“As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.”

Source : Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan
“Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.”
“Much to my chagrin, I think that cinema has gone the wrong way in America because in many ways, I pioneered the use of video which eventually became digital video. Everyone can do it; it's Pop Art time: "Everything is art, why should you take it so seriously, after all it's kind of like a clambake." I don't buy that.”
“Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.”
“Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.”
“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.”
“The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.”
“The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.”

Source : Barry Neil Kaufman (1996). “Out-smarting Your Karma: And Other Preordained Conditions”, Option Institute

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