"Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous."

-- Queen Victoria

#Artist Quotes #Class Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?”
“I wrote 'All You Could Ask For' to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.”
“The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it ever discharges; for while in common with them, it has certain duties for the exercise of which it is especially intended, its high character in man, as the organ of conscious life, the supreme instrument of his relations with the rest of nature, is developed only by a long and patient training.”
“The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.”
“Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs and Ballads, Grave and Gay”, p.48
“A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“There will come a time when the world will look back to modern vivisection in the name of science, as they do now to burning at the stake in the name of religion.”
“As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.”

Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.10, Canongate Books

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