“Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.”
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Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892–1988) English composer, music critic, pianist and writer
Letter to his friend the Scots composer Erik Chisholm (1904-65) upon completion of Opus clavicembalisticum, 1930; quoted by pianist John Ogdon.
“It is as though a puzzle could be put together simply by shaking its pieces.”
Christian de Duve (1917–2013) Belgian biochemist, cytologist
Life Evolving : Molecules, Mind, and Meaning (2002)
Kalki Koechlin (1984) Indian actress
Interview with Olivia Bannock at the Toronto International Film Festival, on the subject of her work with Anurag Kashyap, in That Girl in Yellow Boots, for myETVmedia with Kalki Koechlin (28 September 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1z-_AJiCVE
Lisa Randall (1962) American theoretical physicist and an expert on particle physics and cosmology
The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall (July 2006)
“Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.”
Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape
“Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely. ”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) English writer
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Variant: Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
As quoted in the BBC documentary The Beyond Within: The Rise and Fall of LSD (1987)
Context: I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have ever confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.