"Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space on a map than either."

-- Edward Abbey

#Utah Quotes #Space Quotes #Alaska Quotes

“What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things I learned was that most people assume artists know one thing and one thing only - that they were idiot savants. I found very quickly that most artists were very informed and very aware of what was happening in the world around them. So all of those things go together, especially for earthworks. And at that time there was such an intense interest in American art. So there was a great deal of attention paid to where it was going.”
“All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.”
“When I was a kid I remember thinking, if I had a girl, I would treat her really well. Little did I know, they don't always like that.”
“[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.”
“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.”
“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?”

Source : James Montgomery, Robert Carruthers (1858). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: With a Memoir”, p.161
“I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.”
“I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.”

Source : "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.

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