"I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do."

-- Victoria Principal

#Thinking Quotes #Grew Quotes #Grew Up Quotes

“Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films. One senses in those films painstaking craftsmanship, a furious intellect at work, a single-minded devotion.”
“Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.”
“Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.”
“Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole he was a failure as a poet (sometimes even in his own estimation); Eliot went from success to success and is still quoted--and misquoted--by thousands of people who have never read him. Both men were expatriates by choice, but Eliot renounced his American citizenship and did his best to become assimilated with his fellow British subjects, while Pound always remained an American in exile.”
“We got food stamps. Glad to get the food stamps. Why wouldn't you want to get free money?”
“To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Music seems to stimulate more parts of our mind than almost every other activity. It combines more parts of our minds. It synchronizes our minds. It allows people in groups to do a non-verbal immediate activity together.”
“All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.”

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