"God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!"

-- Djuna Barnes

#Children Quotes #Bed Quotes #Riding Quotes

“I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.”
“And out of heart's pain comes heart's peace; and out of desire, accomplishment.”
“I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body.”
“Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.”

Source : Autobiographical Essay for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.
“Motivation gets you through the day, but inspiration lasts a lifetime.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 30, 2016
“As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and terror, grotesque and maniacal. These films calmed me and made me feel more connected in my experiences.”
“Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.”
“Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.”

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