"Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies."

-- Alan Rickman

#Lucky Quotes #Theater Quotes

“The best way way to get a visual image is not to think of a visual image.”
“As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.”
“Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.”

Source : Ronald Wright (2010). “A Short History Of Progress”, p.3, Canongate Books
“A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.”
“If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.”
“Christian hypocrites who pretend to hate life and love death. He may talk about the soul-what he is after is the girl Love means suffering-those who love drag a chain with them. To her it was not a belief but a certainty Trifling incident gains importance when undue emphasis is laid.”

Source : Georg Ebers “The Historical Romances of Georg Ebers”, Library of Alexandria
“Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.”

Source : "Why Positive Thinking Is Bad for You" by Srikumar S. Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.
“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.”

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