“The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.” LyingHateEmotionalPaintingIntellectualObsessionCompulsionInvolvementDeep LoveLove Or Hate Author:Edward Betts
“I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity that I would care to call consciousness. But I am also confident [...] that vultures and sloths, as close evolutionary relatives with the same basic set of organs, lie on our side of any meaningful (and necessarily fuzzy) border and that we are therefore not mistaken when we look them in the eye and see a glimmer of emotional and conceptual affinity.” BelieveLooksMightEyeCareLyingSidesConsciousnessEmotionalWillingMeaningfulBordersSecondsOrgansSixtyMistakenSlothAffinitySpongesFuzzyVulture Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.” WayDifferentLyingFightingParentEmotionalBrotherCircumstancesBrothers And SistersDisrespectDisharmony Author:Miguel
“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.” LyingArtistPowerEmotionalPaintingIntellectualConsciousResponseAssociationSubconsciousEmotional Response Author:Thomas S. Buechner
“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.” IfsImportantReasonLyingDiesReadingMy OwnWrittenEmotionalMental HealthGenre Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“Don't lie to anyone, but particularly don't lie to millennials. They just know. They can smell it. Be yourself: if you're old, be old. If you don't know anything about pop culture, don't pretend to know anything about pop culture. When you credit teenagers with intelligence and emotional sophistication, they respond intelligently and with emotional sophistication.” IfsKnowsLyingCultureEmotionalPopsCreditSmellTeenagerBeing YourselfPop CultureSophisticationMillennialsDon't Lie Author:John Green
“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.” RealFactsLyingPovertyEmotionalIntellectualWeaknessIdealsEnglandCourtCoastCreepsIncompleteLanesDrunkennessArmament Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)