"I love watching him think," Maeve told Lily. "You can almost hear that poor little hamster running and running on its wheel."

-- Jim Butcher

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“We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call them images , not in Plato's sense (namely that they are only reflections of reality), but I hold that these images are the reality itself and that there is no reality beyond this reality except when in our creative process we change the images: then we have created new realities.”

Source : Eidos: A Journal of Painting, Sculpture, and Design, No. 1, p. 31, 1950.
“I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
“I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.”

Source : Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn
“Character is the only secure foundation of the state.”
“We [ with Italo Calvino] had a great relationship. I don't think it's a coincidence that his only daughter's name is Giovanna. I loved his book dedications to me: "To Giovanna Cau, another book that won't be turned into a movie."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.”

Source : Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam, Jordan-Volpe Gallery (1994). “Childe Hassam: American impressionist”, Te Neues Pub Group
“I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find”

Source : "Slate's Politics: The White House Miers Debacle". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. October 27, 2005.

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