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I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.
You know, sometimes you've got to trust the people you love. You've got to trust that if they're good people, they'll make good decisions.
Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.
There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.
He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.
I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
Jellyfish serve as a model for bioengineers for the same reason yeast were once so valuable to geneticists: they're simple to deconstruct.
I think, generally, romantic stories end with people together. But I'd like a story that ends, like, hopefully but not necessarily neatly.
There is power in seeing a face that looks like yours do something, be someone. There is power in moving from the sidelines to the center.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.
I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
He [William Harvey] bid me to goe to the Fountain-head, and read Aristotle, Cicero, Avicenna, and did call the Neoteriques shitt-breeches.
One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'
My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.
What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.
study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.
Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.
When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.
China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.
I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn our guns against the Republicans.
I mean, I’m an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.
I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.
Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.
I care. They bother me. And that's why I'm stupid. That makes me exponentially more stupid than stupid. I'm stupid to the power of stupid.
A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.
I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full of wonder, so full of hope.
I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them.
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.