"Like falling stars from the universe we are hurled Down through the long loneliness of the world Until we behold the pain, become the pearl"

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Source : Song: The Pearl Live, Album: Red Dirt Girl, 2000

Emmylou Harris

#Stars Quotes #Pain Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“I've had investigations of my lab because people didn't like what I had to say. And when you have investigations and you're doing research, you're shut down for a while. You have to start all over again. So that's one area where I paid a high price.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

Source : Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.
“God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.”
“I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.”

Source : "Stairways". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September, 2001.
“I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV anymore.”
“One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.”
“We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.”

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