"With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world."

-- Alfred de Musset

#Kissing Quotes #World Quotes

“Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.”
“I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We should labor to get the Spirit of God. It is our right, our privilege, and our duty to call upon the Lord, that the vision of our mind may be opened, so that we may see and understand the day and age in which we are living. It is your privilege, and mine too, to know the mind and will of the Lord concerning our duties, and if we fail to seek after this, we neglect to magnify our calling.”
“I suggested that it was not enough to add a moustache to the Mona Lisa: it should simply be destroyed.”

Source : Pierre Boulez, Martin Cooper (1990). “Orientations: Collected Writings”, p.481, Harvard University Press
“What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.”
“The designation of the locality in one excludes the appearances narrated by the rest; the determination of time in another leaves no space for the narratives of his fellow-evangelists; the enumeration of a third is given without any regard to the events reported by his predecessors; lastly, among several appearances recounted by various narrators, each claims to be the last, and yet has nothing in common with the others. Hence nothing but wilful blindness can prevent the perception that no one of the narrators knew and presupposed what another records.”
“The book Dynamic Programming by Richard Bellman is an important, pioneering work in which a group of problems is collected together at the end of some chapters under the heading "Exercises and Research Problems," with extremely trivial questions appearing in the midst of deep, unsolved problems. It is rumored that someone once asked Dr. Bellman how to tell the exercises apart from the research problems, and he replied: "If you can solve it, it is an exercise; otherwise it's a research problem."”
“I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.”
“As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.”

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