"What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him."

-- John Gunther

#Thieves Quotes #What Is Life Quotes

“I hope women who wear my perfume will have men all over them.”
“I have a lot of shoes.”
“the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers ... one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on 'Art' ... (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.”
“If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.”

Source : "My Anti-Fame Manifesto (By Sia Furler)". www.billboard.com. October 25, 2013.
“Worry is forethought gone to seed.”

Source : William George Jordan (1899). “The Kingship of Self-control: Individual Problems and Possibilities ...”
“I do not outline. There are writers I know and count as my friends who certainly do it the other way, but for me, part of the adventure is not knowing how it's going to turn out.”

Source : "Maynard turns eye to sisterhood". Interview with John Wilkens, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 25, 2013.
“Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.”
“Plagiarize, plagiarize, / Let no man's work evade your eyes, / Remember why the good Lord made your eyes, / Don't shade your eyes, / But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize. / Only be sure to call it research.”

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