"The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Voice Quotes #Race Quotes #Goal Quotes

“Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being.”
“Quality doesn't mean deep blacks and whatever tonal range. That's not quality, that's a kind of quality. The pictures of Robert Frank might strike someone as being sloppy-the tone range isn't right and things like that-but they're far superior to the pictures of Ansel Adams with regard to quality, because the quality of Ansel Adams, if I may say so, is essentially the quality of a postcard. But the quality of Robert Frank is a quality that has something to do with what he's doing, what his mind is. It's not balancing out the sky to the sand and so forth. It's got to do with intention.”
“As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.”

Source : Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.200, Stanford University Press
“A lot of these movies are informed by the movies that come before them.”

Source : "Len Wiseman Talks UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING, More Sequels, TOTAL RECALL, and Future Projects; Says RECALL Director’s Cut Is Two Hours Long". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2012.
“John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have prosperity without commerce? How can one have commerce without luxury? How can one have luxury without corruption? How can you have corruption without the end of the Republic?" And they really didn't know the answer.”
“I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.”
“I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.”
“The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.”

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