"My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris."

-- Norman Rockwell

#Paris Quotes #Effort Quotes #Thank God Quotes

“It is a remarkable fact that the second law of thermodynamics has played in the history of science a fundamental role far beyond its original scope. Suffice it to mention Boltzmann's work on kinetic theory, Planck's discovery of quantum theory or Einstein's theory of spontaneous emission, which were all based on the second law of thermodynamics.”

Source : "Time, Structure and Fluctuations". Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1977.
“We each after a while have to become reconciled to what it is that our talents and appetites lead us to.”
“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

Source : "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.
“The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.”

Source : Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.33, Grove Press
“If the masses started to accept UFOs, it would profoundly affect their attitude towards life, politics, everything. It would threaten the status quo. Whenever people come to realize that there are larger considerations than their own petty lives, they are ripe to make radical changes on a personal level, which would eventually lead to a political revolution in society as a whole”
“I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them.”
“Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.”

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