"You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wings Quotes

“I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.”
“I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.”
“To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are.”
“Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same.”

Source : Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.116, Random House Group
“It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.”
“The key to life was rearranging the furniture.”
“What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”
“With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.”

Source : Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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