"It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God."

-- Tom Stoppard

#Real Quotes #Light Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Hating people isnâ€™t a productive way of living. So whatâ€™s the point in hating anyone? Thereâ€™s enough hate in the world as it is, without me adding to it.”
“As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.”

Source : "Record painter". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2008.
“Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.”
“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”
“The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Vanessa Paradis, actor and musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.
“The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.”

Source : "The Wurmanizer". www.wired.com. February 1, 2000.
“Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.”

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