"When there's a painting in the room, my eye goes right to it. It's like if you go into a bar and there's a television on, you can't take your eyes off the television. Paintings have that effect on me. It's where my eye settles."

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Source : Interview with Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2013.

Joe Bradley

#Eye Quotes #Bars Quotes #Television Quotes

“I say a few good things about Canada in the book, you know. Americans are weird, though. We refuse to look at other countries. Start with Canadians - I want to think you aren't that different, so why can't we do our incarceration policies more like Canada? If we still had a 1970 level of incarceration which was the same as Canada's then and now, I never would have written this.”
“Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.”

Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse
“Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the eighth magnitude, which was not recorded in the excellent map designed by Dr. Bremiker, containing the twenty-first hour of the collection published by the Royal Academy of Berlin. The observation of the succeeding day showed it to be the Planet of which we were in quest.”
“If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.”
“People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.”

Source : "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Nature's never quite Sure she hasn't erred In her vague design....”
“You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. Itâ€™s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways Iâ€™m alienated from society.”

Source : Joshua Ferris (2014). “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour: A Novel”, p.22, Hachette UK
“I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.”

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