"Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work."

-- Walter Darby Bannard

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“No outsourcing the "soul" of the company - let's all agree to that. But most companies are more body than soul.”
“So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.”

Source : "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.
“You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television or film or something, you're not 100 percent sure if what you wrote is actually going to work.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I'm just tryin to be somebody I can talk to in the morning with a smile.”
“I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats”

Source : Irving Layton (1972). “Engagements: the prose of Irving Layton”, McClelland & Stewart
“I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.”
“You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new.”
“We should be in the business of living, not making a living.”

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