"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."

-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Fall Quotes #Dark Quotes #Light Quotes

“Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.”
“He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.”

Source : Attributed to Mickey Mantle in "Breakthrough Power for Golfers: A Daily Guide to an Extraordinary Life" by David Young (p. 189), 2011.
“I've never really understood how people cannot value the future, or think that the world is going down a fast slippery slope of degradation. No, I don't think so; this is just what it's going to take to wake us up, and allow us to do what our ancestors did. You know, our ancestors brought us here by tooth and claw. A lot of people perished, a lot of pre-humans perished. Life has never been easy. Why should it be easy for us?”
“The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”
“Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.”
“I think we all have those particular pieces of clothes that we really like, because it ages well, because it fits you well, because you feel comfortable, and you feel confident in those clothes. All those aspects of good design are what I'm interested in.”

Source : "The Beauty in the Basics". Interview with Natalia Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2016.
“I had been on this insane diet for almost 17 years to maintain the weight that was demanded of me when I was modeling. My diet was really starvation. I am not naturally that thin.”
“It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.”

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