"I grew up in Lambeth, I went to normal schools and I've grown up in a city where people say what they think."

-- Ken Livingstone

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cities Quotes

“As far as my experience goes one is automatically in touch with the higher spiritual, it is connected to a certain level that interpenetrates our total physical and psychic existence. We are always in touch with it.”
“In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.”

Source : Newsweek, December 24, 1973.
“When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.”
“When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.”
“There is a land that I can go to When I have time to rest. All the people I love are there And those who love me best.”

Source : Song: Ireland, Album: A Child's Adventure
“Accustomed to trace the operation of general causes, and the exemplification of general laws, in circumstances where the uninformed and unenquiring eye perceives neither novelty nor beauty, [the scientist and natural philosopher] walks in the midst of wonders.”
“I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.”
“Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character.”

Source : James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

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