"Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part."

-- George Washington

#Military Quotes #War Quotes #Movement Quotes

“Hollywood is a goofy place. But I like it.... If one weren't a little mad one wouldn't be there.”
“You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.103, Vintage
“The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.”
“Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.”
“The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.”

Source : Nigel Calder (1969). “Violent universe: an eye-witness account of the commotion in astronomy 1968-69”
“In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.”
“Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.”
“Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.”

Source : John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.344, Vintage

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