"Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar."

-- Horace Walpole

#Age Quotes #Genius Quotes #Might Quotes

“The content of your thoughts and personal beliefs can be proven by a single indicator - your current results.”
“Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.”
“I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?”
“Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.”
“The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.”
“I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)”

Source : Barbara L. Michaels, Gertrude Käsebier (1992). “Gertrude Käsebier: the photographer and her photographs”, Harry N Abrams Inc
“Christianity doesn't come into it. George Bush and Tony Blair are not Christians. Religious people believe in the prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in the profits and how to get a piece of them. So don't ever confuse this with a war of civilizations.”

Source : CBC "The Hour" with George Stroumboulopoulos, November 20, 2006.
“You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.”

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