"Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential."

-- Thomas Piketty

#Thinking Quotes #Influential Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“My right to be me is tied with a thousand threads to your right to be you.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
“No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.53, Northwestern University Press
“Those who are dead are not dead, they're just living in my head.”
“Reason can be used only when looking critically back.”
“I love working with new directors. There's so much drive and effort. It still comes down to the character for me, but if it's a character I really want to play, I would never not do the project because of a new director.”
“Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.”
“Louis Brandeis really inspired me to write this book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet]. It was a crazy deadline. The editor said I'd miss the hundredth anniversary unless I pumped the thing out in six months, because I'd been delaying and dilly dallying for so long. So he both inspired me to get up early and write.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.”

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