"If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing to do so." . . . "Come now," he said at last, "you can hardly claim that I have left you ignorant. I taught you to read, did I not?"

-- Frances Hardinge

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Ignorant Quotes

“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.”
“If you can differentiate a dead chicken, you can differentiate anything.”
“For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.”
“A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.”

Source : Caryl Chessman (1957). “The Face of Justice”
“Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 12, 2003.
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
“I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.”

Source : "Emmy-winning writer-producer David E. Kelley". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. March 8, 2012.
“I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.”

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