"I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start."

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Source : "First Feed Birds, Then Procrastinate". Interview with Cara Buckley, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2009.

Roz Chast

#Nursing Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Obama's immigration legacy will be the juxtaposition of his serial insistence that he was not a king or an emperor, and could not contravene the Constitution by granting a blanket amnesty, with his efforts to do just that when it was no longer politically inexpedient. I don't think a president has ever quite so habitually warned the country of the dangers that would soon emanate from himself.”
“In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.”

Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
“Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.”
“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”
“Guitar players get inward and analytical about their playing but when you start to get positive feedback from other players it makes you think that it is coming together.”

Source : Source: myglobalmind.com
“In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.”

Source : Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: 2002-2013”, p.267, Oxford University Press, USA
“You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Donâ€™t aim to be civilized. Donâ€™t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and donâ€™t do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture.”
“I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.”

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