"In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Art Quotes #Night Quotes #Symphony Quotes

“We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?”
“I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.”

Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“Speak to people according to the development of their consciousness, for if you speak all things to all people, some cannot understand you and so fall into errors!”
“The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.”
“Thought is energy. Active thought is active energy; concentrated thought is a concentrated energy. Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.”

Source : Charles F. Haanel (2016). “The Master Key System”, p.21, Charles F. Haanel
“I have only to be true to the highest I know-success of failure is in the hand of God.”
“Nothing is more real than nothing.”

Source : Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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