"My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself."

-- James Boswell

#Strong Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Wife Quotes

“If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.”
“Documentary has been a way for me to establish myself as a filmmaker. It's my way of proving that I have a language, that I can say something through film.”
“I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.”
“I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.”

Source : "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.
“Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on display, begging for someone to meet them, fix them. And even though I realize I cannot always mend or meet, I can enter in. I can enter into someone's pain and sit with them and know. This is Jesus. Not that He apologizes for the hard and the hurt, but that he enters in, He comes with us to the hard places. And so I continue to enter.”
“...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.”
“As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.”

Source : Josef Albers (2006). “Interaction of Color”, p.70, Yale University Press
“Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.”

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