"I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China."

-- Shan Sa

#Athens Quotes #Philosopher Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“A pair of brilliantly cut cotton trousers can be more beautiful than a gorgeous silk gown...”
“I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.”
“They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press
“A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.”
“There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.”
“The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie,”
“When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.”

Source : Edgar Rice Burroughs (1999). “Tarzan of the Apes”
“I started modeling, doing the Sears catalog kind of thing, then did a lot of commercials when I was growing up.”

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