"Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one."

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Source : Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

Bridget Riley

“One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich and poor could live happily side by side. The public library was a great leveler, supplying a literature by which the ordinary man could experience some of the pleasures of the rich, and providing a common ground where employer and employee could meet on equal terms.”
“The main thing is just really to play my game... and while you are playing the match, as it goes along, you kind of figure things out.”
“I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.”
“It's not going to do anything. And it really is disappointing because the president has an opportunity here to work with organizations like the NRA, who have actually done a lot of significant work when it comes to actually keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. Hillary Clinton can attack the NRA all she wants, the fact is that the NRA has a higher approval rating than Hillary Clinton does when it comes to trustworthiness, that's for sure.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“I like to be surrounded by splendid things.”
“Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...”

Source : Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet
“Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.”
“When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.”

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