"I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems."

-- David Almond

#Song Quotes #Bird Quotes #Tree Quotes

“It is beyond a doubt that during the sixteenth century, and the years immediately preceding and following it, poisoning had been brought to a pitch of perfection which remains unknown to modern chemistry, but which is indisputably proved by history. Italy, the cradle of modern science, was at that time, the inventor and mistress of these secrets, many of which are lost.”
“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.”
“With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes.”
“I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.”
“Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.”
“My research shows that uncertainty about your income at older ages causes more depression, causes more anxiety, which could lead to more chronic heart failure, heart disease, does actually mean shorter lifespans.”
“What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.”

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