"Marke all Mathematicall heades, which be onely and wholy bent to those sciences, how solitarie they be themselues, how vnfit to liue with others, & how vnapte to serue in the world."

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Source : Roger Ascham (1870). “The Scholemaster”, p.34

Roger Ascham

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“I want to read books and go for walks and make dinner. I guess there are people who love working and that's great. I'm not one of them. I love tackling roles and I love theater, but filming, I don't get it. It seems mind-numbing to me.”

Source : "Catching Up with Robert Sean Leonard". Interview with Josh Wolk, ew.com. July 05, 2007.
“We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.”
“You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.”
“Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.”

Source : Yves Klein, Gimpel Fils (1973). “Yves Klein”
“Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Donâ€™t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.”
“The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.”
“I don't know what art is, but I do know what it isn't. And it isn't someone walking around with a salmon over his shoulder or embroidering the name of everyone they have slept with on the inside of a tent.”

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