"To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color."

-- Toller Cranston

#Color Quotes #Territory Quotes #Conformity Quotes

“A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it's moody, and storm is coming, there's an energy in the air.”
“The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.”
“The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be wonâ€¦ but one we dare not lose.”

Source : C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.32, Penguin
“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.”
“I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.”

Source : Calvin Tomkins, Roy Lichtenstein (1988). “Roy Lichtenstein: mural with blue brushstroke”, ABRAMS
“When George W. Bush decided to save the American position in Iraq by going against the advice of all of his wise men, of Jim Baker and the whole Iraq Study Group, and 90% of his administration, that was George W. Bush's decision. So we have to bear in mind that this isn't an administration we're electing. It's a person that we are electing.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.”

Source : Susan Glaspell (2008). “Plays”
“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Source : Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.12

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