top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."
Author Name
Personal Development
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
Author Name
Personal Development
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nothing is long ago in an archive, my dear. In the records we treat the dead as same as the living. that's the whole point of keeping papers. It doesn't matter if it's a hundred years or only a few weeks. It's all filed away, fresh as the day it went under the covers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history."
History
"Well, nine times out of ten when you have 2 or 3 stars in a household you have an unfortunate amount of competition that's not necessarily a healthy competition."
Competition
"I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been."
England
"Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave."
Artist
"Unfortunately, I'm not one of those people who take pictures, you know, carry a camera. Because if I did I'd have stack's and stack's and stack's of different act's. I got a lot here - I know what I done."
People
"The record industry is a world within itself."
World
"I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world."
Work
"Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended."
Time
"If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work."
Family
"It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to."
Company
bottom of page