"On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly"

-- Claude Debussy

#Teaching Quotes #Butterfly Quotes #Wings Quotes

“I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.”
“I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.”
“I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity to lay down the physical, psychological, cultural, public infrastructure of a global mega-state, and today we are on the verge of being Honduras?”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“You want the mystical understanding of the cosmos to feel compatible with a scientific understanding of the cosmos, like it extends our understanding rather than unwriting it.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.214, Springer Science & Business Media
“Let's do it right. This is for the ages.”

Source : 1978 Quoted byJCarter Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, in theWashington Post, 27 Aug1995. On his design for the gallery's East Building which was soaring to an unbudgeted cost of $94.4m.
“The hands are the instruments of manâ€™s intelligence.”
“I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.”

Source : "American Horror Story’s Larry The Burn Guy Is Living A Lie! Denis O’Hare Opens Up!". Interview with Sheldon Wiebe, eclipsemagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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