"At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape."

-- Willard Wigan

#Home Quotes #Rope Quotes #World Quotes

“Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.”
“I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.”
“In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.”
“There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.”

Source : Edward Gibbon (2000). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II: A.D. 395 to A.D. 1185 (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.253, Modern Library
“When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.”
“Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.149, Ballantine Books
“I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.”

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