"When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy."

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Source : Thomas Young (2003). “Thomas Young's Life and Works: Life of Thomas Young”

Thomas Young

#Boys Quotes #Men Quotes

“This is my main shortcoming: I was so determined not to lose time that I often did the wrong thing. Not losing time has been my permanent concern since I was three years old, when it dawned on me that time is the warp of life, its very fabric, something that you cannot buy, trade, steal, falsify, or obtain by begging.”
“All I know is I have a job here as long as I win.”
“At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results. After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.”
“I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.”
“Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
“Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.”
“It's wonderful. It's amazing. I mean we have such a great music scene and art scene and there's just a great group of young people, you know, temping their way through their 20's doing other amazing things. And I've been in...I spent like 10 years working here without ever having been shooting in Toronto. And it's so frustrating because it's a great city. And I remember seeing Montreal actually used as Montreal in that Ed Norton-Robert DeNiro.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.”

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