Alexander Thomas Augusta Quotes

#1. A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.

Brice Marden

#2. Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.

Josephine Tey

#4. The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

Joseph Campbell

#5. The two centrepieces of social intelligence are the possession of extensive social knowledge about other individuals, in terms of knowing who allies and friends are, and the ability to infer the mental states of those individuals.

Steven Mithen

#6. Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

Helen Fisher

#7. I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Grace Jones

#8. It's my duty to enlighten people.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. Sometimes you do your very best and you lose anyway.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#10. As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

Bernhard Schlink