"All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves."

-- Dorothy Thompson

#Art Quotes #Self Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.”
“I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look students in the eye and tell them what a great place this was to work.”

Source : "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs". www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2012.
“I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.”
“If you want something in this life, reach out and grab it.”
“People having religions is an insult to the universe.”
“It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.”
“When you do what you want, not what you wish...' said the first raven. 'When you no longer seek your reflection in others' eyes...' said the second. 'When you see yourselves face to face...' said the third. 'Then,' the ravens intoned in unison, 'you will have found what you truly seek.”

Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.73, Penguin
“I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Jamie-Lynn Sigler Takes Us Beneath the Dark". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. November 5, 2010.

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