"I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place."

-- Rufus Jones

#Circles Quotes #Events Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
“Americans resent the vagaries of weather to a degree unknown to other peoples. ... Weather is a force we have lost touch with. We feel entitled to dominate it, like everything else in the environment, and when we can't are more panic-stricken than primitives who know that when nature is out of control they can only pray to the gods.”
“Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.”
“We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.”

Source : "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 232), 1963.
“Many a healthy reaction has proved fatal.”
“In the digital world we live in, there is no pixel who thinks they're better than any other pixel. And there is no pixel that will not work with another pixel to produce something. And when two pixels come together and have children, they'll place any attention to what the color is and nobody says anything.”

Source : Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com
“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
“I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.”

Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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