"You ought to have seen FrÃ©dÃ©ric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste."

-- Leon Daudet

#Hands Quotes #Opening Up Quotes #Perspective Quotes

“I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.”
“Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.”

Source : "Do writers need paper?" by Tom Chatfield, www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. October 20, 2010.
“Whatever you paid to seeÂ MichaelÂ Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.”
“Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.”
“The future is a bright as the promises of God.”
“I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.”
“Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs.”
“Challenge your own status quo - before someone else does.”

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