"In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature."

-- Aristotle

“They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.”
“While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.”
“Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.”
“A lot of people I know hate Paul McCartney in general. I guess I understand, but I'm a fan. I think he's a little underrated in my peer group - unlike John Lennon. He's not my favorite Beatle, but he's a goddamn good songwriter and he makes a lot of really cheesy, schmaltzy stuff but he's still underrated.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me the audience had to look at me, too. He knew a lot about the theater and how to move around. He was very secure.”
“I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.”
“Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.”

Source : Hugh MacLennan (1975). “The watch that ends the night: a novel”, Macmillan of Canada, 1975
“Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.”

Source : Oswald Mosley (1957). “Mosley: the facts”

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