"We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language."

-- Frank Herbert

#Moving Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Greatness is the reward for genius...only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.”

Source : "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2001.
“So welcome 'Damsels in Distress,' an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention... This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed.”
“In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.”
“You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.”
“One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.”
“L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.”

Source : "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.
“When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.241, U of Nebraska Press
“There's a phrase we live by in America: "In God We Trust". It's right there where Jesus would want it: on our money.”

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