"No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls."

-- David Brainerd

#Profound Quotes #Soul Quotes #Able Quotes

“I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.”
“I hope that I would put whatever my political beliefs aside, and realize that my country's asked me to to something, and do it.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“Fischer is the strongest player in the world. In fact, the strongest player who ever lived”
“I remember when I first started having these interpretations of these images, these clichÃ©s of what movie stars are and this and that, and they're egomaniacal ***** and tyrants, but in general, for the most part, they're nice people to tell you the truth.”
“He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?”
“The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.”

Source : "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.
“Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!”
“My working hours are not that conventional. I often get up about two in the morning and do a painting, and then I'll have a bath, and then I often feel very hungry around 4am, so I'll go into Soho and have a meal somewhere like Balans. That's what I love about living here - there's always life around me.”

Source : "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

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