"For visions come not to polluted eyes."

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Source : ..... Fisher, Fisher, Son, & Co, Mary Howitt, L.E.L. (1841). “Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-book: With Poetical Illustrations”, p.23

Mary Howitt

#Eye Quotes #Vision Quotes

“We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind of the investigator. We must have a robust faith and yet not believe.”
“A book is a friend. You can never have too many.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2003). “Shelf Life: Stories by the Book”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
“You shouldn't need 60 full minutes to create a portrait that an audience doesn't forget. You should be able to make an impression that's lasting and resonant with one scene.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.”
“I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of time, space, or being. In that liberated state you can see fundamental truth and the phenomenal world simultaneously. That is called Buddha's world. That is the place where all sentient beings exist, so you can stand up there and see all beings, myriad beings. Then you know very clearly, through your own emotional and intellectual understanding, how all beings exist.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.75, Shambhala Publications
“Life would be so much easier if fictional boys were real.”
“When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit me down, I can get tied up in my own medical dramas. So I much prefer to work.”

Source : "Katherine Boo: Slum dweller" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 1012.

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