"Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival."

“Evolution is faith, a religion.”

“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.”

Source : Michael Ayrton (1962). “Drawing and Sculpture”

“I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.”

“Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.”

Source : Lillie Devereux Blake (1874). “Fettered for Life, Or, Lord and Master: A Story of To-day”, p.254

“And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez.”

“It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.”

“I have one speed, I have one gear: go!”

“Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de