"Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche."

-- Allen W. Wood

#Philosophy Quotes #Reading Quotes #School Quotes

“I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.”
“A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all.”
“The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.”
“Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.”
“A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.”

Source : "Sally Hawkins: 'I hope some sort of magic will kick in'" by Sally Hawkins, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.
“The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.”
“Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.”

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