"[writing to Stirling in 1740] ... an unlucky accident happened to some of the French mathematicians in Peru. It seems that they were shewing French gallantry to the natives' wives, who have murdered their servants destroyed their instruments and burnt their papers, the Gentlemen escaping narrowly themselves. What an ugly article this will make in a journal."

-- Colin Maclaurin

#Writing Quotes #Escaping Quotes #Wife Quotes

“Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.”

Source : Song: Remember To Remember, Album: Secrets
“Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.”
“To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.”
“I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.”

Source : Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”
“Activity does not necessarily equal progress.”
“The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
“Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.”

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