"Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past."

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Source : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

Esther Meynell

#Dream Quotes #Children Quotes #Book Quotes

“I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I donâ€™t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.”

Source : "Composer Hans Zimmer Speaks Out Against 'Interstellar' Sound Critics" by Kirsten Acuna, www.businessinsider.com. November 18, 2014.
“I think it's a fascinating thing to see how lonely people are in this world and what they're looking for. It's a universal concept. So, it's something that interests me and I'll probably revisit it if I get the chance to do the child soldier film because I think it's one of the most important scripts I've written. It's just too dark to do as a film right now. I need to do something a bit different.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.”
“The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.”
“I don't need to know how tough I am to know how tough I am.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.”
“The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately unpleasant as the sewers of Paris. With decent and honorable gents, I come all over Platonic. Was ever a woman so perverse and wrongheaded?”
“Art attests to what is inhuman in man.”

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