"I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass."

-- John Constable

#Glasses Quotes #Looks Quotes #Daylight Quotes

“I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.”
“Clever tyrants are never punished.”
“It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.”
“News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.”
“The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways”
“Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.”
“When the brain is working to remember something, similar patterns of neurons fire as they did during the perception of the original event. These networks are linked, and each time we revisit them, they become stronger and more associated. But they need the proper retrieval cues--words, smells, images-- for them to be brought back as memories”

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
“The attributes you need to be a travel writer are somewhat contradictory. For travel you need to be tough and resilient and to write you must be sensitive and sympathetic.”

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