"It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with."

-- Marisha Pessl

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Common Quotes

“A creative person has to believe in the unseen and the untouched.”
“Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.”

Source : John Ford (1827). “Dramatic works of John Ford ...”, p.274
“I believe in previous lives and the Museâ€”and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled into material being by their own imperative to be born, via the offices of those willing servants of discipline, imagination and inspiration whom we call artists.”
“The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.”
“I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.”
“I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.”
“That no-hitter stuff was a long time ago; I don't think that has anything to do with it. I'm just going through a tough time.”
“Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement; ... The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals, ... are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.”

Source : Justus von Liebig (1859). “Familiar Letters on Chemistry, in its relation to Physiology, Dietetics, Agriculture, Commerce and Political Economy: Edited by John Blyth”, p.21

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