"The best servant does his work unseen."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Unseen Quotes #Doe Quotes #Servant Quotes

“These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.”
“You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.”
“I had a lot of jobs, because I wanted to be an actor, and I had this bad habit of wanting to eat regularly. So, I had to make some money somewhere. I was everything from a stock worker in an Alexander's department store to flower delivery person to a messenger to a grocery clerk to a gas station attendant. I even worked in Macy's dusting off fur coats for two weeks.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.”

Source : Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art
“For a second I was just a kid â€“ a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edwardâ€™s eyes.”
“I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.”
“There is something dreamlike about the points that provide a view of the other side, but they belong not so much to the dreamtime as to dream work. The nomads enter the dreamtime not by setting off on some extraordinary, dangerous voyage, but through their everyday, ambulatory movement.”

Source : César Aira (2009). “Ghosts”, p.64, New Directions Publishing
“You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.”

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