"The drama of light exists not only in what is in the light, but also in what is left dark. If the light is everywhere, the drama is gone."

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Source : Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.2, New Riders

Jay Maisel

#Drama Quotes #Dark Quotes #Light Quotes

“If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time was spent on teaching children how to describe (in simple modern English) the method whereby ethylene was converted into polythene in 1933 in the ICI laboratories at Northwich, and to discussing the enormous social changes which have resulted from this discovery, then I believe that we should be training future leaders in this country to face the world of tomorrow far more effectively than we are at the present time.”
“It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.”
“I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life is when I disappoint myself.”
“Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.”
“A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.”
“Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.”

Source : "California’s Gov. Brown blasts state, federal education policy" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013.
“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press

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