"Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding."

-- William Wycherley

#Love Quotes #Quality Quotes #Breeding Quotes

“Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality.”
“People who don't know me, when they see me they kind of step back and just stare at me and say, "Dang, he's a big dude." True fans and guys who follow the sport, they know who I am. But sometimes I do get those people that look at me and kind of stop and just stare at me, which I hate.”
“The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.”
“There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (1991). “Alfred Russel Wallace: An Anthology of His Shorter Writings”, Oxford University Press, USA
“It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.”

Source : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.”
“You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.”
“There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.”

Source : "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

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