"A bright eye indicates curiosity; a black eye, too much."

-- Evan Esar

#Eye Quotes #Black Quotes #Curiosity Quotes

“The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.”
“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”
“In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With a barrier of fear removed, a loving and forgiving awareness seemed to occur quite naturally and spontaneously.”
“I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.”
“It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.”
“I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.”
“I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.”

Source : "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.
“True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1824). “Sermons. ...: To which is Prefixed a Short Account of the Life and Character of the Author”, p.117

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