"She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good..."

-- Eva Ibbotson

#Intelligent Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Passionate Quotes

“The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.”

Source : George Bellows, Catherine Anne Green (1981). “George Bellows, Works from the Permanent Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, August 7-September 7, 1981”
“I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.”
“I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas...because we can always learn more.”
“I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.”
“Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.”
“Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly”

Source : Joe Orton (2014). “Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...”, p.14, A&C Black
“I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.”
“If India is computer, Congress is its default program.”

Source : "If India is computer, Cong is its default program: Rahul Gandhi". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. August 23, 2013.

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