“Next, as for the Memory, or retentive faculty, we may be sufficiently instructed from the written Histories of civil actions, what great assistance may be afforded the Memory, in the committing to writing things observable in natural operations.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“The Wings of all kinds of Insects, are, for the most part, very beautifull Objects, and afford no less pleasing an Object to the mind to speculate upon, then to the eye to behold.”— Robert Hooke, amazon.com
“Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”— Walker Evans, amazon.com
“And it was this that awed him — the weird combination of fixity and change, the terrible moment of immobility stamped with eternity in which, passing life at great speed, both the observer and the observed seem frozen in time.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com