"Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey."

-- Marcus du Sautoy

#Teacher Quotes #Journey Quotes #Brain Quotes

“It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.”

Source : Wilfried Dörstel, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Augenpunkt, Lichtquelle und Scheidewand: die symbolische Form im Werk Marcel Duchamps : unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Witzzeichnungen von 1907 bis 1910 und der Radierungen von 1967/68”
“It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore”
“I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfullyâ€¦”
“What is, is; and what ain't, ain't”
“Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.”
“And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.”

Source : Jack Finney (2013). “About Time: 12 Short Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.”
“And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

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