"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."

-- Damien Hirst

#Country Quotes #Weekend Quotes #Cities Quotes

“You can tell a lot about a person by how excited they are to do the Macarena.”
“I win and succeed only 'cause I fail so much. I fail all the time. I wrote 70 songs just to have 12 good ones. For the video I shot 60 hours of footage. 60 hours! To come up with an 8 minute video. So really I only win 'cause I fail.”
“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
“I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.”

Source : "Violets and Vinegar". Book by Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman, "The Battle Done", 1980.
“Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I'm not really super impressed even if you're my hero; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I'm not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs - okay I might do that once or twice. But it's just, like, two people hanging out.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.”
“The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.”

Source : "A Universe Without Purpose" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
“Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (1996). “Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth”, Random House (NY)

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