"Sometimes I'll drive around for months despair, nothing, nothing, then suddenly I will see something that seizes me... a shape, a combination of shapes, a play of light or shadows and I send up a prayer because I know I have the germ of a picture."

-- Jeffrey Smart

#Art Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Light Quotes

“She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I knowâ€”she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesnâ€™t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow.”

Source : Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan
“Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.”

Source : Forbes Magazine, vol. 68, 1951.
“Routine is the one thing the can get you killed. It tells the enemy where you're going and when you're going to be there.”

Source : Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Stormbreaker”, p.187, Penguin
“I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.”
“I've always been reasonably fatalistic.”
“I've always wanted to be a cat. Warm and domesticated when you want to be, wild when you don't.”
“Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.”
“I like the saying the every setback is a setup for a comeback. Also, "Todos los tigres son iguales" which means all tigers are the same. A fellow reporter once told me that when I was on assignment in Haiti working around the clock.”

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