"The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat."

-- Will Cuppy

#Zebras Quotes #Believe Quotes #Fall Quotes

“A real strong fighter should always look dignified and calm... I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness.”
“I look at the past and I see myself.”
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
“Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.”
“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press
“We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.”
“The US needs military/defense, economic, and social strategies. A medium-sized business, by contrast, is normally best off focusing its efforts on a single crucial objective.”
“Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.”

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