"History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened."

-- Earnest Hooton

#History Quotes #Events Quotes

“Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.”
“He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.”
“When I started, we had just the camera and the person, mostly. And if you wanted to do a dolly shot, particularly working in Chicago where I began, you'd get in the back trunk of a car, and you'd have a friend drive the car, or you'd get in some kid's little wagon that he plays with and have someone pull that for dolly shots.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.
“We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many a general reader-that is, the lay reader located outside the domain of science and scholarship-may regard the lowly footnote or the remote endnote or the bibliographic parenthesis as a dispensable nuisance, it can be argued that these are in truth central to the incentive system and an underlying sense of distributive justice that do much to energize the advancement of knowledge.”

Source : Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1996). “On Social Structure and Science”, p.333, University of Chicago Press
“Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.”
“This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.”

Source : "A Fireside Chat With Roy Haynes". Interview with Fred Jung, www.allaboutjazz.com. November 29, 2003.
“Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.42, Penguin
“He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.”

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