"I was brought up an atheist and have always remained so. But at no time was I led to believe that morality was unimportant or that good and bad did not exist. I believe passionately in the need to distinguish between right and wrong and am somewhat confounded by being told I need God, Jesus or a clergyman to help me to do so."

-- Nigella Lawson

#Atheist Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Believe Quotes

“People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.”
“Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.”

Source : "Great Paintings of the World". Book by Jean-François Guillou, p. 190, 2000.
“I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.”
“I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!”
“The best bet for the horses would be to stop betting on the Derby and other horse races, and to stop breeding, racing and killing thoroughbreds altogether”
“Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.”
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.”
“For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people. Sometimes those real people are people in positions of great prominence or power or adverse situations, and sometimes it's just normal folks who help illuminate a situation, a place, a culture. And for me, that's always been the best way of telling a story.”

Source : "From captivity to classroom". Interview with Christina Pazzanese, news.harvard.edu. September 12, 2016.

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