"La deÂ couverte d'un mets nouveau fait plus pour le bonheur du genre humain que la deÂ couverte d'une eÂ toile. The discoveryof a newdish doesmore for thehappiness of mankind than the discovery of a star."

-- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#Stars Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Genre Quotes

“The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.”
“...you found you were saying yes when you meant no, and â€œWeâ€™ve got to be together in this thingâ€ when you meant the very opposite ... and then you were face to face, in total darkness, with the knowledge that you didnâ€™t know who you were. And how could anyone else be blamed for that?”
“The workman still is greater than his work.”
“Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.”
“Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?”
“In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.”
“Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.”
“I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.”

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