"I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Health Quotes #Delight Quotes #Patient Quotes

“I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.”
“I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.”

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“What Do You Care What Other People Think?”
“As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.”
“Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing went instantly into all languages as the names of heroes, partly because they really were men of heroic mold but chiefly because they represented so compellingly the spirit of their time.”
“Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota.]”
“Do you wish to see clearly and be free?”
“Everything is reduced to what's physical in the end, because it's the filth inside people's minds that creates all the evil. What is a body, anyway? I suppose you've got to abuse your body to understand it. If you're not prepared to humiliate yourself in order to give somebody else a moment's pleasure, I don't believe that you've actually lived.”

Source : Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.214, The Overlook Press

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