“Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 146 of 303
“Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.”
“These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know.”
“I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless.”
“One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.”
“I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.”
“I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few people about very few things in very narrow terms and yet still believed (and still believe today) that there was something that I was getting myself involved in when I said I wanted to study philosophy.”
“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”
“I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.”
“Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?”
“From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way." "Then," said Yossarian, "I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?”
“To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”
“I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.”
“I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?”
“If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.”
“When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.”
“I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things.”
“Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.”
“I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind.”
“Words are the small change of thought.”