Immunity The Journal Quotes & Sayings

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi. — Mark Kostabi

READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT. — Kate DiCamillo

I still think Connie was a human man, a very, very good one - but a man. I have been wrong in my judgments many times before; if now I am ignorant and blind, I'm sorry, but it's no new thing. If that should be the case though, it means that I have had great privileges in my life, perhaps more so than any man alive today. Because it means that on the fields and farms of England, on the airstrips of the desert and the jungle, in the hangars of the Persian Gulf and on the tarmacs of the southern islands, I have walked and talked with God. — Nevil Shute

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? — Howard Zinn

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. — Sydney Smith

Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own ... I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world. — Loretta Lux

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going. — Curtis Armstrong

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other. — Paul McCartney

Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting. — Kristin Scott Thomas

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. — Paul Singer

Reference to the deadness of the past is a way of staking a claim on it. But historians must be open, as ethnographers try to be, to the shock of the unpredictability and difference of the past, which means open to the possibility of the past living in its insistence on telling its own story and so confounding us. Only in this way can the past teach us something new about ourselves, about the limits of our imaginings and ways of knowing, and even of our particular and distinctive ways of being human. — Robert A. Orsi

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation. — Jane Goodall

Bosun!" "Aye, skipper?" "Reinforce the mainmast, hang out all the laundry, and warn the witchmen! Let's make the old bitch fly! — Jim Butcher

It is man who forsake is Maker. — Lailah Gifty Akita