"I was already at an age when putting off anything was a bad idea."

-- Philip Sington

#Ideas Quotes #Age Quotes

“Sovereignty rests with me as an English MP and that's the way it will stay.”
“We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.593, Ballantine Books
“For gypsies do not like to stay - They only come to go away.”
“The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.”
“Trust is fine, but control is better.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.10, Profile Books
“MORE CONSISTENTLY THAN EVER I WAS TRYING TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT CINEMA AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ART HAS ITS OWN POSSIBILITIES WHICH ARE EQUAL TO THOSE OF PROSE. I WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE HOW CINEMA IS ABLE TO OBSERVE LIFE, WITHOUT INTERFERING, CRUDELY OR OBVIOUSLY, WITH ITS CONTINUITY. FOR THAT IS WHERE I SEE THE POETIC ESSENCE OF CINEMA.”
“I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms.”
“I'm trying to do something real different; I'm trying to bring the street to real pop. I'm trying to bring the street to pop. Not watering it down, no nothing.”

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