"By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it."

-- Edith Sitwell

#Nature Quotes #Years Quotes #Vacuums Quotes

“Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.”
“If environmentalism is a fad, it will be the last one.”
“When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.”

Source : "The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 2014.
“A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.”

Source : Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.63, MIT Press
“Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.”
“Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.”

Source : "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.
“Shall we gather at the river, Where bright angel feet have trod; With its crystal tide for ever, Flowing by the throne of God?”

Source : Robert Lowry, William Howard Doane, Ira David Sankey (1877). “Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School”, p.153
“Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.”

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