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“It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.”

Littles Doe Made Trouble Materials Paint Size Expenses Customs Splits Canvas Worms Convenience Venice

Book:The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

Source: The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

“Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.”

Doe Sometimes Brain Trouble Absolutes Size Contracts Elephants Negotiation Whales Outwitting

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried, or that the world is crumbling when it is, as everyone can see, there as usual. If all A that does not fit B is ipso facto disqualified, we have to tailor A to shape and size to avoid serious trouble, and not all are equally gifted in this art.”

People Ifs World Doe Has Beens Art Alive Trouble Serious Fit Shapes Size Buried Usual Conventions Gifted Convenient Inconvenient Tailors Crumbling

Author:R. D. Laing

“Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.”

Cutting Trouble Laughter Size

Book:LIFE ITS OWN SELF

Source: LIFE ITS OWN SELF

“We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.”

Ifs Giving Writing Trying Turns Individual Trouble Beats And Love Bigger Affair Financial Size Pursuit Gratification Keep Trying Love Affair Fascists Clout Lyric Poetry

Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.”

Sleep Trouble Air Wine Size Breathing Bus Vocal Conditioning Coffins Sleeping In Air Conditioning Bunk

Author:Brandi Carlile