"When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle."

-- Elizabeth West

#Men Quotes #Irritation Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me.”

Source : "13 Questions With Alfonso Cuaron". Askmen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more, making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive - non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective. the only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.”

Source : "Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt".
“The shortcut to anything you want in your life is to BE and FEEL happy now!”
“Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.”
“When a woman says, â€˜I have nothing to wear!â€™, what she really means is, â€˜Thereâ€™s nothing here for who Iâ€™m supposed to be today.”
“Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.”
“Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.”

Source : Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.82
“A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.”

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