"I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world."

-- Eva Zeisel

#World Quotes #Made Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“O my offense is rank, it smells to heaven.”
“The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.”
“James Porter said to me once, when I was talking about painting, he said, well, that's fine, he said, but you have a good mind so you can't just be a painter; you're going to have to help define the field and keep the tradition going. And he meant walking in his footsteps in a certain way.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.”
“I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.”

Source : "Live Blog: Murdochs, Brooks, police testify in phone-hacking scandal". news.blogs.cnn.com. July 19, 2011.
“Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.”
“I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing honestly from their own experiences, whether they presented it in the guise of fiction or not.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.”

Source : "The Dark River". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2007.

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