"Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way."

-- Marcel Proust

#Simple Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“The most difficult thing about an easy match is to make a weak opponent play bad football.”
“Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.”

Source : Robert Schumann (1983). “On Music and Musicians”, p.37, Univ of California Press
“However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.”
“We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.”
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”

Source : "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Four, Chapter VIII, 1840.
“I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Christmas.”

Source : "Gary Barlow: the sexy one". Interview With Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2011.
“On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.”
“Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.”

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