"Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal."

-- Timothy Garton Ash

#Heart Quotes #Europe Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.”
“Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.”
“But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of liesâ€¦”
“It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.”
“I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I walked in a desert. And I cried, â€˜Ah, God, take me from this place!â€™ A voice said, â€˜It is no desert.â€™ I cried, â€˜Well, But - The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon.â€™ A voice said, â€˜It is no desert.â€™”

Source : Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1314, Library of America
“I never thought of my work in terms of being radical, although I tried to make it radical- that is, to shift the premise of what goes for pictures on a wall. I wanted my work to say something other than the usual- the usual format for an artwork being a rectangle, a square, or anything flat, framed, and attached or hooked on the wall. That was accepted practice, mainline thinking.”

Source : "Art as a Continuum. Nancy Spero". ART21 Interview, art21.org.
“My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.”

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