"We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we've missed and can't name, and out of that wanting - well, everything else rises, good and bad. What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place? The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute."

-- Adam Gopnik

#Eye Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Light Quotes

“O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.”
“In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more authentically me because I developed it without ever soliciting the advice of anyone else.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.”

Source : "The Oscars? Oh no, not again". www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2000.
“Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.”
“Simplicity, very rare in our age.”
“You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.”
“I have a ridiculous amount of confidence of protecting myself, but along with that confidence comes the ability that you don't need to fight.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. February 21, 2008.
“I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean”

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