"Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention."

-- Fridtjof Nansen

#Lines Quotes #Retreat Quotes #Invention Quotes

“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.”
“The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.”
“If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a Men in Entertainment issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.”

Source : "If Women Ran Hollywood: Joel McHale, 'New Girl's' Liz Meriwether and Kurt Sutter Answer". The Hollywood Reporte Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 12, 2012.
“Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with”

Source : Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2001.
“Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.”
“The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding at him, hell for leather, and the machinist sees three idiots sitting on the rail track. "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."”

Source : The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8
“Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“Make your next car electric, put solar panels on your roof, and go vegan.”

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