"One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."

-- Richard Francis Burton

#Sea Quotes #Wings Quotes #Wish Quotes

“What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.”
“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.16, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.”
“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”
“Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.”

Source : "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I think younger artists are often "students" of the rock press. They have their favorite rock star interviews and know how they're supposed to act. But I find that time helps a lot. If you have enough time you can sort of break that down just by being a normal person. And then they realize the interview isn't just a performance, and they can actually speak to you. I often try to get people into a space where they're not over-thinking what they're talking about and instead they're speaking emotionally, from within their experience.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.”
“Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.”

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