"One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see."

--

Giorgio Morandi

#Understanding Quotes #Looks Quotes #World Quotes

“A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.”

Source : Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.135, U of Nebraska Press
“I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.”
“The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.”
“Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.”
“Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.”
“One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.”
“The hippie is the scion of surplus value. The dropout can only claim sanctity in a society which offers something to be dropped out of--career, ambition, conspicuous consumption. The effects of hippie sanctimony can only be felt in the context of others who plunder his lifestyle for what they find good or profitable, a process known as rip-off by the hippie, who will not see how savagely he has pillaged intricate and demanding civilizations for his own parodic lifestyle.”
“When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.”

You may also like: