"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."

-- Seamus Heaney

#Imagine Quotes #Ireland Quotes

“True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.”
“Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.”

Source : "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 159, 1996.
“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”
“At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.”

Source : "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
“I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.”
“When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit.”
“How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.”
“The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.”

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