"A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet."

-- Stephen Greenblatt

#Dirty Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Knights Quotes

“I would like to enlighten people.”
“Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.”
“I'm still working, I've got two arms, two legs, two gorgeous kids, a lovely wife. Fifteen years ago, I was homeless. So when you think about it, I'm lucky.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.”
“The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that canâ€™t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I donâ€™t know anything like enough yet; that I havenâ€™t understood enough; that I canâ€™t know enough; that Iâ€™m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldnâ€™t have it any other way.”
“Everyone has problems. When you think you want to end your life, maybe you could be there for someone else and can learn something.”

Source : "Courteney Cox Talks Directorial Debut JUST BEFORE I GO, Gus Van Sant’s Advice, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 26, 2015.
“When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.”
“It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.”

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