
„The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.“
— Larry Niven American writer 1938
Scatterbrain (2003), p. 26
Letter to F.W Weber (1950); published in New York—Pennsylvania Collector (8 August 1991)
Contexto: How do ideas come? What a question! If they come of their own accord, they are apt to arrive at the most unexpected time and place. For the most part the place is out of doors, for up in this northern wilderness when nature puts on a show it is an inspiring one. There seem to be magic days once in a while, with some rare quality of light that hold a body spellbound: In sub-zero weather there will be a burst of unbelievable color when the mountain turns a deep purple, a thing it refuses to do in summer. Then comes the hard part: how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, air and space, there is no such thing as sitting down outside and trying to make a “portrait” of it. It lasts for only a minute, for one thing, and it isn’t an inspiration that can be copied on the spot...
— Larry Niven American writer 1938
Scatterbrain (2003), p. 26
— Saki British writer 1870 - 1916
"Reginald on Besetting Sins"
Reginald (1904)
— David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016
"Sermon From the Savoy", New Musical Express (29 September 1984)
Contexto: I'm terribly intuitive—I always thought I was intellectual about what I do, but I've come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing half the time, that the majority of the stuff that I do is totally intuitive, totally about where I am physically and mentally at any moment in time and I have a far harder time than anybody else explaining it and analysing it. That's the territory of the artist anyway: to be quite at sea with what he does, and working towards not being intuive about it and being far more methodical and academic about it.
— Cecilia L. Ridgeway American sociologist 1947
Ridgeway (2013) Meet the 2013 ASA President: Cecilia Ridgeway http://www.asanet.org/cecilia-ridgeway. 2013
— Philippe Starck French architect and industrial designer 1949
— David Bowie British musician, actor, record producer and arranger 1947 - 2016
— Eugène Delacroix French painter 1798 - 1863
Quote from entry of Delacroix's Journal, 14 March, 1847; as cited in Selected writings on Art and Artists, transl. P. E. Charvet – Cambridge University Press, Archive, 1981, p. 150, note 44
This visit of Delacroix was the beginning of an important friendship
1831 - 1863
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
p. 239
— Samuel Richardson English writer and printer 1689 - 1761
— Dallas Willard American philosopher 1935 - 2013
Fonte: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
— Randy Pausch American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design 1960 - 2008
CMU Graduation speech (2008)
Contexto: We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully — for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up. Because when he shows up, it’s too late to do all the things that you’re always gonna, kinda get around to.
— Douglas Crockford American computer programmer 1955
In response to David Winer http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/scripting-news-for-12212006/
— Norman Cousins American journalist 1915 - 1990
— Pope Benedict XVI 265th Pope of the Catholic Church 1927
On visited the former concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland, on May 28, 2006. Quoted in The Watchtower magazine, in the article: “Why, Lord, Did You Remain Silent?”, (15 May 2007)
2007
— Richard Serra American sculptor 1939
Charlie Rose interview (2001)
— J.B. Priestley English writer 1894 - 1984
International Herald Tribune, January 3, 1978.
— James Anthony Froude, livro The Nemesis of Faith
Arthur's commentary
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)