"Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality..."

-- James Anthony Froude

#Struggle Quotes #Son Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.”
“Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student”
“At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space, it's also to work with the time, to work with the people who are involved with the place. It's also dealing with history. It takes all this into account. Other works can be placed in different environments, but they always follow a rule. This is usually not the case for work in situ, because even if they are transported, they remain there forever or they are destroyed.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.”

Source : Francine du Plessix Gray (1981). “World without end: a novel”, Simon & Schuster
“I get enough of that on the news, so I didn't want to deal with fundamentalists or any sort of thing like that. I just wanted to keep it as lighthearted as the Cold War was, which obviously it was a fun time for everybody.”

Source : Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.
“In the evening Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.”
“But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.”
“I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.”

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