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“In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a small garden of plants that stay green all year. The winter is bleak. This place is primarily for the installation of art, necessarily for whatever architecture of my own that can be included in an existing situation, for work, and altogether for my idea of living.”
Source : Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”
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“Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.”
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“Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?”
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“Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.”
Source : Lloyd Jones (2011). “Mister Pip”, p.194, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.”
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“A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.”
Source : Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”
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“It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge”
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“What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?”
