"Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard."

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Source : James Huneker (1910). “Promenades of an Impressionist”

James Huneker

#Light Quotes #Monet Quotes #Turner Quotes

“You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.”
“I don''t know if I like communism, and I don''t know if I like socialism. But I know that the Breakfast for Children Program feeds my kids. And if you put your hands on that Breakfast for Children Program . . .”
“Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up.”
“Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.”

Source : Cordelia Fine (2005). “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, p.122, Icon Books Ltd
“Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”
“If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates oneâ€™s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and oneâ€™s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.”
“I've never been a flag waver, but I can lead by example.”

Source : "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.”

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