"My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas."

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Source : Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.26, Vintage

Kary Mullis

#Christmas Quotes #Mother Quotes #Brother Quotes

“My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I'm sort of pushing that point to its limit, in my mind, but I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a laptop so long as we have some understanding of how it works a little bit.”
“In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: The better a seducer I became, the less I loved women. Success was no longer defined by getting laid or finding a girlfriend, but by how well I performed.”

Source : Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.154, Canongate Books
“Then she smiled, and in that instant, if such a thing were possible, Pasquale fell in love, and he would remain in love for the rest of his life--not so much with the woman, whom he didn't even know, but with the moment.”

Source : Jess Walter (2013). “Beautiful Ruins”, p.16, Penguin UK
“When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the Uncarved Block: Life is Fun.”

Source : "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.
“It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.”
“Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.”
“Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 24, 2011

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