"The prevailin' weakness of most public men is to Slop Over!.... G. Washington never slopt over."

-- Artemas Ward

#Power Quotes #Men Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped long ago trying to tell me what I should show in their gallery. They just don't even do it. I show whatever I want to show. They are very happy and as far as I know, they have always been very pleased with whatever I have shown, even if it is nothing to sell.”
“You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.”
“Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.”
“We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later some use will be found for our studies. The mathematician, of course, prides himself on being totally useless, but usually turns out to be the most useful of the lot. He finds the solution but he is not interested in what the problem is: sooner or later, someone will find the problem to which his solution is the answer.”
“If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2006.
“The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy.”
“There is nothing more practical than a good theory.”

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