"Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair."

-- A. E. Housman

#Hair Quotes #Fists Quotes #Prison Quotes

“Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Nobody gets to name you. You are not forgettable. You are not replaceable. You are not your pain. You are sacred and special and alive.”
“He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.”
“Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.”

Source : Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.125, South End Press
“They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies. [Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte. Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]”
“Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.”

Source : Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.241, Penguin
“Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.”
“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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