"It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close."

-- Ellen Hopkins

#Choke Quotes #Ends Quotes #Trembling Quotes

“When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.”
“The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it's hard to think of anything else”
“Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.”

Source : "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.
“Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.”
“I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.”
“Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.”
“Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.”

Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.”

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