"I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes."

-- Anne Rivers Siddons

#Thinking Quotes #Just Being Quotes #Serious Quotes

“Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.”
“There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.”
“In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill.”
“Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.”
“Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didnâ€™t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But Iâ€™d seen it once -Woods”
“I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.”
“Indeterminism does not confer freedom on us: I would feel that my freedom was impaired if I thought that a quantum mechanical trigger in my brain might cause me to leap into the garden and eat a slug”

Source : J. J. C. Smart, J. J. Haldane (2008). “Atheism and Theism”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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