"Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters."

-- Georg Trakl

#Water Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Silver Quotes

“The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.”
“The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have got to love the game.”
“I've always been terrified of violence which is probably why I keep making violent films - I'm trying to exorcise some demons or something. My mum ended up bringing me up on the edge of a big estate in south London, so I was on the periphery of violence - a lot of football violence and stuff because I was a Millwall supporter. So I've always had a very healthy fear of it, yet at the same time a fascination. I think in all of my films that's a really strong subtext... people who are terrified by violence but are yet compelled by it as well.”
“You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.”
“All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naÃ¯ve young boy really. With Peugeot, and especially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different,”
“The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.”

Source : "Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay". Book by Troy Perry, 1972.
“... we never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture ...”

Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.370, Xist Publishing

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