"Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Generations Quotes #Sap Quotes #Literature Quotes

“He who will travel far spares his steed.”
“Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.”

Source : Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster
“Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.”
“I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to think I could have put almost any young man in my retinue on a white horse and they would have thrown flowers at him instead. It was not me they cared about, only what I meant to them: a cessation of hostilities, a chance for prosperity, food on the table.”
“I think what's happening in Hollywood is a direct reflection of what's happening in the world right now.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.”

Source : FaceBook post by Andy Mineo from Jul 22, 2013
“The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.”
“I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.”

Source : The AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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