A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist
– Fernand Lger
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- Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first. – Derek Landy
- The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
- I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century. – Anatole France
- The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race’s knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation. – Maya Angelou
- How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
- It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
- Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
- By your eighteenth birthday you’re supposed to know. They’re supposed to tell you. Splicer. True Born. Laster. – LE Sterling
- I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.I enjoy the times of prosperity and endure the times of difficulty. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of economies. – Fernand Braudel
- …a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud. – Fernand Dumont
- If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. – Oscar Wilde
- If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – Joan Powers
- To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. – Sun Tzu
- Give a hundred writers the same idea and you’ll get a hundred different stories. – Joy Fielding
- If you run a hundred miles in your heart, you are ready to run a hundred miles on your feet. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Friends were hundred ,Kites were none ,This was the time when I was young.Now the kites are hundred ,Friends are none,Sitting under the flaming sun. – Yash Gupta
- Friends were hundred ,Kites were none ,This was the time when I was young.Now the kites are hundred ,Friends are none,Sitting under the sun. – Yash Gupta
- One is always greater than hundred because without one there is no hundred – ABC
- Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won’t be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How’s that strike you? – Lisa Tawn Bergren
- That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells,and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water… – Antoine de SaintExupry
- I’d put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead? – Chris Kyle
- Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies. – David Abram
- You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs. – Roshan Sharma
- One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him. – Ryan Lilly
- When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it. – Ryan Lilly
- The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. – Ryan Lilly
- As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common. – Bryant McGill
- The process of mind is mechanical, and the data of the thoughts and imagination can be changed, by changing the experiences and impressions of life. – Roshan Sharma
- It was a curious day, slashed abruptly with fleeting, familiar impressions. – F Scott Fitzgerald
- Soft sunlight tall treeswoodsmoke impressions summery cuestossed onthis dainty patch of my recluse.~ Poem Title VERS LIBÉRÉ, Tara Estacaan – Tara Estacaan
- Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today. – Napz Cherub Pellazo
- You have to keep doing it, Even if no one is watching. The best artists, are those Who live from their expressions, Not chasing the impressions. – Nikki Rowe
- Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? – Jerome
- Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers. – Brian K Vaughan
- People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it. – Ann Brashares
- Your charisma and charm can make your moments more memorable for amazing first impressions. – Susan C Young