"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."

-- Virgil Thomson

#Food Quotes #Might Quotes #Said Quotes

“Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.”
“Science tries to answer the question: "How?" How do cells act in the body? How do you design an airplane that will fly faster thansound? How is a molecule of insulin constructed? Religion, by contrast, tries to answer the question: "Why?" Why was man created? Why ought I to tell the truth? Why must there be sorrow or pain or death? Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.”
“Sensibility is the power of woman.”
“In life, people will take you at your own reckoning.”
“The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.”
“In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.”
“We don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.”
“Why does the need to explain comics still exist? Because that prejudice still exists. It's fading, but it's still very strong. It's important to keep pushing the boundaries of what people know comics to be so that they are receptive to the whole world of comics, not just one or two genres of work.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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