"Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Fall Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.”
“I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“It's always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.”
“The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.”

Source : Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.83, Penguin
“I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.”
“From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?”

Source : Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.228, Springer Science & Business Media
“In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.”
“This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.”

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