"I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other."

-- Bill Griffith

#Art Quotes #New York Quotes #School Quotes

“Go early to bed. Start maybe working out a little sooner. Stay patient. Stop smoking.”
“Any degree of unemployment worries me.”
“But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.”

Source : Jojo Moyes (2010). “The Last Letter from Your Lover”, p.322, Hachette UK
“I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.”
“Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.”
“A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.”
“Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.”
“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2016). “The Journey (Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 2)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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