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“Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.”
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“There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.”
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“The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.”
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“We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.”
Source : Pindar (1942). “Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions”
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“No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.”
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“It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.”
Source : Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.31, Hachette UK
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“To be perfectly honest, I was never really aware that I had any special abilities. When you have what you have, you don't really think about what you don't have; you simply work with what you have.”
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“I wrote three novels in six months, with a clarity of focus and attention to detail that I had never before experienced. This type of sublime creative energy is characteristic of the elevated and productive mood state known as hypomania.”
Source : Ayelet Waldman (2017). “A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life”, p.13, Knopf