"[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset."

-- Isaac Todhunter

#Life Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity”
“That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.”
“If I were to remake a movie, I'd love to remake Halloween 3 Season of the Witch because even though it's a very flawed film, at its core is a brilliant idea: An evil toymaker is set to kill all the children of the world on Halloween night - and I think that's absolutely fantastic. So whoever has the rights can give me a call.”
“I am here to make you think. . . . I am not here to make pretty pictures!”
“If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster
“The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.”
“What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.”
“Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.”

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