"Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity."

-- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.”
“Everybody has a gas-guzzling car because people like SUVs. They would like SUVs if they were hybrid vehicles that had the same horsepower and used less gasoline. Instead, what the auto manufacturers are doing is building SUVs that are hybrid vehicles that use the same amount of gasoline because they up the horsepower. That's a decision that they make to market irresponsible economic behavior. The American people like the SUVs, they have kids, they, they need them, they get around in them, but we have options.”
“Acting like the person I'm supposed to be has always been the easiest thing for me.”
“People in life take on certain stories and say, 'I'm going to be defined by this story and I'm going to live up to every inch of this story.' Sometimes you realize the story isn't fulfilling you and in fact you're not living the life that you're given.”

Source : "'Castle': Stana Katic Discusses Beckett's Post-Hostage Crisis Revelation and Tolerating the Precinct's New Boss (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 07, 2011.
“what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.”
“Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.”

Source : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 549), 1886.
“I have been waiting for the devil living inside of me to stop making love to all the ghosts you left behind.”

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