"How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before."

-- Douglas Coupland

#Clouds Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Water Quotes

“If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?”

Source : "On Deception, Spin, and Losing Our Way" by Sheryl Crow, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2007.
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”
“You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.”
“You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.”
“I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without it.”
“I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees,”

Source : "Ryan Reynolds Talks Holding Blake Lively Captive and 'Grade-A Sh*t' Advice in Cannes" by Lindsay Miller, www.popsugar.com. May 16, 2014.
“I don't engage in self-censorship. But I do change everybody to have red hair in the last draft. ... If you give people red hair when in real life they haven't got red hair, I've noticed they don't recognize themselves, anyway.”
“Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.”

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