"Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones."

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Source : William Whewell (1856). “Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...”, p.22

William Whewell

#Art Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Iron Quotes

“Some people die, others just run out of fuel.”

Source : Carmen Boullosa (2007). “Cleopatra Dismounts: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England.”
“There is absolutely no Wuxia or martial arts in 'Red Cliff.' I want all the action to look realistic.”
“We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.”
“Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.”

Source : "Death Note". Manga by Tsugumi Ohba, 2003-2006.
“Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.”

Source : Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books
“Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.”
“I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.”

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