"Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in."

-- John French Sloan

#Fire Quotes #Tree Quotes #Special Quotes

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”
“I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.”
“I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.”
“Please, touch me, I pray.”

Source : Jess C. Scott (2010). “The Intern”, p.37, jessINK
“Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.”
“Itâ€™s kind of like, I would say, maybe college recruiting. Iâ€™m pretty sure a lot more goes into it in the NBA. A lot more money is spent. Iâ€™ve heard stories, guys getting called right at midnight. Itâ€™s something that I havenâ€™t experienced. I may want to go through it. I havenâ€™t thought about it at all.”
“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”
“The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.”

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