"Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about"

-- Piero Scaruffi

#Inspirational Quotes #Book Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.”
“Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “A Song for Summer”, p.178, Pan Macmillan
“You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.”
“The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.”

Source : Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”
“The black socks [on me at Olympics in 1968] emphasized the fact that we had so many Blacks and people of color here in the United States, the greatest country in the world, that was running around in poverty every day, so we wanted to illustrate the fact that these individuals did not have shoes and they had to walk 20 miles to and from school every day with no shoes in the greatest country in the world.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You may imitate, but never counterfeit.”
“Over to my left is the big grey wall in front of the church. Are we the Thoughts of God? a poster asks. No, I realise. It's the reverse.”

Source : Scarlett Thomas (2008). “The End Of Mr. Y”, p.363, Canongate Books

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