quotes about Cashmere

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isnt true.”

“The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.”

“All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”

Source : Thomas Hoving, Grant Wood (2005). “American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece”, Chamberlain Brothers

“Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.”

“The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.”

“I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.”

“I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.”

“I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.”

Source : Interview with Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. July 15, 2011.

“Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.”

“I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.”