"[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire."

-- Theophile Gautier

#Art Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is political fiction.”

Source : "War on Women Affects Us All" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.
“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.”

Source : Inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, 1906, sourcebooks.fordham.edu. June 11, 1895.
“Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.”
“Every time I step out on that field, I'm 100 percent. My teammates know that. They know what I'm out there dealing with. I know what I'm out there dealing with. But when it comes to my mindset, I'm 100 percent.”
“Every time somebody ever told you that you weren't gonna amount to anything, you know, that's your time to shine, you know? You can show everybody and prove to yourself what you're doing is real and that it counts and that it makes a difference.”
“I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him.”
“It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question without an idea which invites an answer. I consider it, therefore, an absolute principle that experiments must always be devised in view of a preconceived idea, no matter if the idea be not very clear nor very well defined.”
“This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.”

Source : "Why brands side-line the over-50s at their peril" by Crispin Reed, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013.

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