"Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land; a lot sterilizes it."

-- Margaret Visser

#Men Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Land Quotes

“I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
“I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."”
“I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.”
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
“If I ever teach writing again, Iâ€™d say the first lesson is to listen.”

Source : "Lucky Man" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.
“Seaweed sheets are my go-to for my salty chip cravings, especially wasabi flavored ones,”
“So long as the processes of healing were not understood and man thought that the power to heal resided in substances and things outside of him, he logically sought for extrinsic means of healing, and a healing art was a logical development. The system of medicine, as we know it today, was a logical development out of the fallacy that healing power resides in extrinsic sources.”

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