"After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt."

-- Esa-Pekka Salonen

#Years Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.”
“You have twenty-one days to shoot a whole movie and sometimes you go into that thinking ugh, this could potentially be really, really difficult and it turns out to be the most incredible experience.”

Source : "Kathleen Robertson - Chameleon of the Big and Small Screen". Interview with Todd Konrad, www.ifqmag.com.
“Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.”

Source : "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.
“I have to make rock records occasionally.”
“In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.”
“If someone were to harm my family or a friend or somebody I love, I would eat them. I might end up in jail for 500 years, but I would eat them.”
“The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.”
“... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.”

Source : Hermann Weyl (2013). “Riemanns geometrische Ideen, ihre Auswirkung und ihre Verknüpfung mit der Gruppentheorie”, p.44, Springer-Verlag

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