quotes about Optical Illusions

“Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.”

“You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.”

“I think it's an interesting thing to have to produce an album that you'll want to listen to for 50 minutes.”

“Literature is the most beautiful of countries”

“The world's best swordsman doesn't fear the second best; he fears the worst swordsman, because he can't predict what the idiot will do.”

Source : David Weber (2013). “The Honor of the Queen, Second Edition”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

“She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.”

“The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over.”

“Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking. . . . If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.”

“I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.”

“We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick... the trade union for the nation as a whole.”