"Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty."

-- Christopher Wren

#Uniformity Quotes #Variety Quotes

“Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.”
“I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.”
“People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.”
“I believe that. But I want you to know something â€” when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, Iâ€™m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I donâ€™t care whoâ€™s a werewolf and whoâ€™s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too.”
“I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..”
“I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.”

Source : "Sky Ferreira and the dark side of the music biz" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.
“To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.”

Source : Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”
“It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.”

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