"Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead."

-- Benjamin De Casseres

#Fame Quotes #Parlor Quotes

“We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.”
“Words came out of the womb of matter; And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately Sees the surface, The core and the surface Are essentially the same, Words making them seem different . . .”

Source : Witter Bynner, James Kraft (1995). “The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters”
“Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about.”
“Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.”
“Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I'm all about flannels and layers, so that's pretty much what I rock.”
“I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.”

Source : Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”
“It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.”

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