"We've had a day of great drama and of humour too. The rumour mill is now taking over"

-- Andy Burnham

#Drama Quotes #Mills Quotes #Humour Quotes

“See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead!”
“I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.”
“In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated.”
“He stared at his feet. â€œIâ€™m still very ignorant,â€ he said, â€œbut at least Iâ€™m ignorant about really important things.”
“The history of discovery is full of creative serendipity.”

Source : Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.123, Crown Business
“The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.”

Source : Acceptance speech fot the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1980.
“My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.”

Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.
“A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.”

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