"I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part."

-- John Banville

#Ideas Quotes #Behavior Quotes #Exciting Quotes

“Happiness can be just as contagious as misery.”
“Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.”

Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books
“The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.”
“I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.”

Source : "Culture" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2001.
“I carry one black mascara and one brown.”
“Beauty always takes place in the particular.”
“I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.”
“Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.”

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