"I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Pain Quotes #Minutes Quotes #Spokes Quotes

“My agent says, "You have an audition for the next Dustin Hoffman movie, playing a pioneer woman." And I go, "All right!" I passed Barry Levinson in the hall on the way into my audition, and I saw him do a double-take. I think I looked so determined that I got the job right then.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.”
“Actually, when you're doing something you love, even when you're busy and it's hectic you don't feel the need to relax. I never used to take holidays and it would upset ex-wives and girlfriends, but working has me in a better mood than doing nothing.”

Source : Source: www.roland.co.uk
“Common sense is not something rigid and stationary, but is in continuous transformation, becoming enriched with scientific notions and philosophical opinions that have entered into common circulation. 'Common sense' is the folklore of philosophy and always stands midway between folklore proper (folklore as it is normally understood) and the philosophy, science, and economics of the scientists. Common sense creates the folklore of the future, a relatively rigidified phase of popular knowledge in a given time and place.”
“There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press
“I've got a canvas, I've got a scene, letâ€™s fill that with sound.”
“Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.”

Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.64, Vintage Canada
“Rome wasn't built in A.D.”

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