"Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man."

-- Gao Xingjian

#Baby Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Men Quotes

“Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.”
“Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny.”
“Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.”
“Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.”
“I don't want anyone to be afraid. I don't anyone to hold back who they are.”

Source : "Youtube star Connor Franta comes out as gay in tearful, emotional video" by Jessica Hyndman, www.mtv.com. December 08, 2014.
“When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.”

Source : 'Handy Andy' (1842) ch. 36
“I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”
“Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.”

Source : "Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler Dead at 63" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2003.

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