Beekhuizen Hoekerd Quotes

#1. Music, Schopenhauer wrote, is not unconscious arithmetic, as Leibniz had claimed, but unconscious philosophy, since in music the inner essence of the world, which is will, is made directly present to the mind.

Roger Scruton

#2. I allow myself to have my feelings of disappointment and discouragement, but never to sit and wallow in them.

Tim Matheson

#3. she'd grown accustomed to the idea that she was sleeping with a galactic version of Indiana Jones. All he's missing is a cool hat and perhaps a few more brain cells than his onboard medical scanner realizes.

Eve Langlais

#4. The book is second only to the wheel as the best piece of technology human beings have ever invented. A book symbolises the whole intellectual history of mankind; it's the greatest weapon ever devised in the war against stupidity.

Philip Pullman

#5. I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.

Morena Baccarin

#6. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.

Zander Sherman

#7. Sophia is worth a change. I have to make the right choices from now on.

Cristiane Serruya

#8. With monochrome painting ... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

Guido Molinari

#9. Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they do. You can't dwell on problems too early, or they will swamp the virtues and you will decide not to do the project.

Steven Levy