"Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness."

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Source : Isaac Barrow (1849). “Eighteen Sermons on Various Subjects”, p.38

Isaac Barrow

#Simplicity Quotes #Crafts Quotes #Shallowness Quotes

“Hong Kong is the supermarket of Asia.”

Source : Eleanor Coppola (1979). “Notes”, Amadeus Press
“I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.”
“I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.”
“Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.”
“For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything.”
“Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.”
“Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.”
“We must not think too unkindly even of the east wind. It is not, perhaps, a wind to be loved, even in its benignest moods; but there are seasons when I delight to feel its breath upon my cheek, though it be never advisable to throw open my bosom and take it into my heart, as I would its gentle sisters of the south and west.”

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