"It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself."

-- J. Milton Hayes

#House Quotes #Scene Quotes #Spots Quotes

“Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.”

Source : Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“As the great naturalist Charles Darwin saw clearly, individual and collective interests often coincide, as in the invisible hand narrative. But he also saw that in many other cases, interests at the two levels are squarely in conflict, and that in those cases, individual interests generally trump. That simple observation suggests that market failure is often the result not of insufficient competition (the traditional charge from social critics on the Left), but of the very logic of competition itself.”
“Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.”
“I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles, from different points of view, from different presentation styles, that really makes things sink in and become embedded.”
“I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.”
“Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.”
“For us, every day is Earth Day. It's like with Women's Day recently, I said, "Every day is women's day - we're women!" It's something that we sort of take for granted.”
“How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.”

Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.82, Nellie Bly

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