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“There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.”
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“If you practice with your head, two hours is plenty.”
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“It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.”
Source : Georges Cuvier (Barón, (), Robert Jameson (1817). “Essay on the Theory of the Earth”, p.1
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“Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.”
Source : Richard Wilbur, William Butts (1990). “Conversations with Richard Wilbur”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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“Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far as to write a paper, which he took with him to the Institute, and began to read it. But in the first paragraph something struck him that he had not observed: he muttered: 'Il faut que j'y songe encore', and put the paper in his pocket.' [I must think about it again]”
Source : "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan (p. 178), 1872.
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“We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.”
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“Don't ever marry a man who loves his work more than he loves you.”
Source : Kristan Higgins (2012). “Just One of the Guys”, p.40, Harlequin
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“What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
