"I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China."

-- Jung Chang

#Home Quotes #Past Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.”

Source : Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.57, Vintage
“All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.”
“I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs”
“The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.”
“Once the vision of the fulfillment of your dream has been planted in your mind, bring it in to your prayer life. Each time you pray the picture to mind and meditate on it. Pray over it. See it happening. Destroy all the images of failure. Replace them with the image of success.”

Source : Phil Pringle “Hope”, Faris Digital Solutions Pte Ltd
“One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!”
“When they took me to do the camera test for the vampire make up, after they put the prosthetic on, I went though the entire process, I went back to my trailer and I looked in the mirror and I smiled.”
“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”

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