"You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy."

-- Bob Geldof

#Thinking Quotes #Administration Quotes #Trolleys Quotes

“No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward knowledge, pleasure, consolation, wisdom, and hope.”
“This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put a lot of boys in a room looking at art history.”
“Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.”
“Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.”

Source : "Classics Revisited". Chapter: "Tolstoy: War and Peace", p. 192, 1968.
“Go where your best prayers take you.”
“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms â€œsuccessâ€ and â€œfailureâ€ had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding oneâ€™s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.”
“Writing style is something is a consequence of who you are. I think that I had a certain propensity for a style that I recognize in my early work, but that doesn't mean I didn't have to learn certain basics and the longer you write the better you get. The rhythms come from you. If the rhythm seem to echo the music, then that's delightful if people see that, but it's certainly not something that's intentional on my part. I'm trying to be as clear and precise as I can be and at the same time, I'm trying to be eloquent and witty and entertaining. I mean, writing should be a pleasure.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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