Jacob Rothschild My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her. – Jacob Rothschild Admirer Quotes Art Quotes Bell Quotes Bloomsbury Quotes Collected Quotes Duncan Quotes Eliot Quotes Figure Quotes Friend Quotes Giaometti Quotes Grandmother Quotes Grant Quotes Hutchinson Quotes Life Quotes Mary Quotes Matisse Quotes Mother Quotes Vanessa Quotes If we can go some way to creating a vibrant anaerobic digestion industry here in the U.K., we will be reaching our goals both in terms of economics and the environment. My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
Paul Hawken Green business is not about tie-dyed T-shirts. It’s about transforming the industrial system itself into one that looks at all the connections. – Paul Hawken
Maryam Mirzakhani Sometimes, properties of a fixed hyperbolic surface can be better understood by studying the moduli space that parameterises all hyperbolic structures on a given topological surface. – Maryam Mirzakhani
Harry Houdini To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. – Harry Houdini
Spike Lee Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner. – Spike Lee
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