"Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs."

-- Wendy Beckett

#Reading Quotes #Museums Quotes #Bookstores Quotes

“...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.”
“Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:”

Source : Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.185, Verso
“I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.”

Source : "Good to be King: The Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.
“I believe in the not-too-distant future, people are going to learn to trust their information to the Net more than they now do, and be able to essentially manage very large amounts and perhaps their whole lifetime of information in the Net with the notion that they can access it securely and privately for as long as they want, and that it will persist over all the evolution and technical changes.”

Source : "Computing Pioneers Discuss the State of the Net". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 22, 2005.
“Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or something to do with making comedy.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The first billion is a helluva lot harder.”

Source : T. Boone Pickens @boonepickens, twitter.com. May 31, 2012.
“When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and see if you can bring that back to the surface, so that you can then literally hand it off to the character, and then let him run with it.”

Source : "Q+A: Jackie Earle Haley, Good-Natured Monster". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. May 10, 2012.
“A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the mediaeval mind. It appealed strongly to common human sympathy and pity; it startled also another feeling, that of fear. It frightened men and awed them. It made them feel that man is blind and helpless, the plaything of an inscrutable power, called by the name of Fortune or some other name,-a power which appears to smile on him for a little, and then on a sudden strikes him down in his pride.”

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