"Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told."

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Source : "Harpo Speaks". Book by Harpo Marx, 1961.

Harpo Marx

#Laughter Quotes #House Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do.”
“What scientist would not long to go on living, if only to see how the little truths he has brought to light will grow up?”
“I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.”
“We'll work on relaxation strategies and also changing the times you go to bed will actually make them sleep a little bit less for a few nights so their body's natural sleep drive starts to kick in. That is very effective in about 60% to 70% of patients who do it, four to eight sessions, not even every week; it works for 60% to 70% of patients.”
“I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.”
“If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press
“I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013
“A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.”

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