"There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#Feel Better Quotes #Men Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“I spend a lot of my time looking at blue, The colour of my room and my mood...”
“And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.”

Source : Interview with Brian Wise, www.elviscostello.info. April 10, 2004.
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
“I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.”
“Iranian filmmakers are not passive. They fight whenever they can, as creative expression means a lot to them. The restrictions and censorship in Iran are a bit like the British weather: one day it's sunny, the next day it's raining. You just have to hope you walk out into the sunshine.”
“Be flexible. Don't be afraid to change your mind. If you're wrong, change your mind. If you go down the wrong path, and you're down 10-12%, it's better to sell down 15% versus 50%. If you have an idea that something is going to happen, you're predicting the future, and it's OK to be wrong. Where you can go wrong is by making a prediction that doesn't come true, and then sticking with it.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.”
“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy?”

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