"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."

-- Gyorgy Ligeti

#Thinking Quotes #Paris Quotes #Moscow Quotes

“A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.”
“We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other - as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.”

Source : Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1913). “Harriet Hosmer: letters and memories”
“It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise”
“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
“All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.”
“Rather than thinking to build, build to think.”
“The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'”
“I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.”

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