"Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Character Quotes #People Quotes #Admiration Quotes

“In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.”
“The flesh is what traps us, because no one has ever chosen his or her body to live in, has he? It's the flesh that makes us sick, that makes us old and that eventually ends up killing us. But at the same time, it's that glorious flesh that enables us to scratch heaven through sensuality, through passion. Paradoxically, the flesh that kills us will also make us feel eternal for a brief moment because that's what we are in passion, eternal - we abandon ourselves, we give ourselves to the other, so much that when we are loving passionately, death doesn't exist.”
“Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.”
“Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.”
“Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.”
“Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.”
“I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.”

Source : "Dances with frogs", www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2003.
“For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.”

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