"Work? Itâ€™s just serious play."

-- Saul

#Play Quotes #Serious Quotes #Working It Quotes

“Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.”
“Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.”
“For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.”

Source : "The Historian". Book by Elizabeth Kostova, June, 2005.
“You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.”
“Pierce jerked his hand from Trent and pushed himself straight. â€œKalamack Industries,â€ he said, expression twisted as he wiped his hand on his pants. â€œI knew your father.â€ â€œI do not freaking believe this,â€ I said, shifting to stand where I could see both of them. Al beamed. â€œAmazing who you can meet in an elevator.”
“An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That's why I like to work with the photogram, because the contact with what is represented is actual. It's as if the border between the world and the print is osmotic.”
“Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.”
“Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.”

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