Experimenters Board Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.' — Tom Odell

It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his love to all places; the perfect man has extinguished his. From boyhood I have dwelt on foreign soil and I know with what grief sometimes the mind takes leave of the narrow hearth of a peasant's hut, and I know too how frankly it afterwards disdains marble firesides and panelled halls. — Hugh Of Saint-Victor

The only reality is "anxiety" in the whole chain of beings. To the man lost in the world and its diversions this anxiety is a brief, fleeting fear. But if that fear becomes conscious of itself, it becomes anguish, the perpetual climate of the lucid man "in whom existence is concentrated. — Albert Camus

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me. — Bob Beamon

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions — Leonardo Da Vinci

The plant that's been uprooted has only courage to hold it up. — Marty Rubin

I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am. — David Oakes

I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write. — Avi Lewis

Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end. — Steve Erickson

He was not to perceive that of two men engaged in an action so hideous, he who permits the thing is worse than the man who does the work, because he is the coward! — Victor Hugo

Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all. — Martin Kippenberger