quotes about Increasing Knowledge

“In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.”

“Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!”

“It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.”

“With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.”

“I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.”

“It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.”

“The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees”

“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.”

“Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every description, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelligence, character, and taste of the inhabitants, that they possess in themselves a great peculiar interest for the mind.”

Source : Andrew Jackson Downing, Henry Winthrop Sargent (1859). “A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America: with a view to the improvement of country residences”, p.318

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