"Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment."

-- Etty Hillesum

#Ocean Quotes #Sailing Quotes #Desire Quotes

“It is good to dream! After I dream, I envision, and after I envision, I create!”
“I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.”

Source : "Bret McKenzie of Flight Of The Conchords". Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2007.
“To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies. The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your ownâ€”a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.”
“The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.”
“I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Be bold, free, and truthful.”
“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”
“I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.”

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