"Laws are inoperative in war"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that Ive done after that is really because of the Olympics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.”
“Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.”
“Fiction allows us to see the world from the point of view of someone else and there has been quite a lot of neurological research that shows reading novels is actually good for you. It embeds you in society and makes you think about other people. People are certainly better at all sorts of things if they can hold a novel in their heads. It is quite a skill, but if you can't do it then you're missing out on something in life. I think you can tell, when you meet someone, whether they read novels or not. There is some little hollowness if they don't.”

Source : "Philip Hensher: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.
“Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.”
“I want to motivate the world, basically.”
“Women like silent men. They think they're listening.”
“Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.”

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