Pictures Are Treasure To Keep Quotes & Sayings

I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives - maybe fifty or a hundred people at the most. And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they could all have somebody to tell stories around the campfire at night, and somebody else to paint pictures on the walls of the caves, and somebody else who wasn't afraid of anything and so on. That's what I think. And of course a scheme like that doesn't make sense anymore, because simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions. — Kurt Vonnegut

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial. — Stan Getz

didn't dare ask where she would stop the machine, and still less, why there. I didn't think she'd tell me anyway. — Magda Szabo

Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch. — Bryant McGill

The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets. — Napoleon Hill

You don't reward reaction; you reward results. — Edwin Louis Cole

Life and death are one. You have life, and life is death. Without death there is no meaning to life. Without life there is no death. Be content with what you have. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

Fourier's theorem is not only one of the most beautiful results of modern analysis, but it may be said to furnish an indispensable instrument in the treatment of nearly every recondite question in modern physics. — Lord Kelvin