"As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty."

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Source : "Bill Nighy: 'I'm greedy for beauty'". Interview With Nigel Farndale, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2015.

Bill Nighy

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“True New Yorkers do not really seek information about the outside world. They feel that if anything is not in New York it is not likely to be interesting.”
“Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.”

Source : Judith Wright (1992). “A human pattern: selected poems”, Carcanet Press Ltd.
“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

Source : Charles Dickens (1906). “Works, ed. by G.K. Chesterton and W. Jerrold. 22 vols.”
“Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.108, A&C Black
“When I consider what people generally want in calculating, I found that it always is a number. I also observed that every number is composed of units, and that any number may be divided into units. Moreover, I found that every number which may be expressed from one to ten, surpasses the preceding by one unit: afterwards the ten is doubled or tripled just as before the units were: thus arise twenty, thirty, etc. until a hundred: then the hundred is doubled and tripled in the same manner as the units and the tens, up to a thousand;â€¦ so forth to the utmost limit of numeration.”
“And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.”
“I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.”
“Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.”

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