"As long as the body is not in perfect health, you think about it, and that prevents you from thinking of the mind. The sound mind is a sound body."

-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.”
“I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.”
“Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.”
“Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!”
“There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.”
“At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.”
“The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
“The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.”

Source : Herbert Gold (1993). “Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet”

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