"... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible."

-- Elizabeth Bowen

#Writing Quotes #Looks Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.”
“Even in the most grieving of losses, or whatever sort of pain you're sitting in, we can bear it.”
“According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.”

Source : "Haydn, A Documentary Study". Book by Chandler Robbins Landon (p. 88), 1981.
“Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some of the other poets. Some of the better rappers can rap real fast without even melodies. It'll get to that same point.”

Source : "The extraterrestrial brother: George Clinton on time, space, and funk". Interview with Andy Seifert, www.avclub.com. February 12, 2010.
“A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.”
“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.”

Source : Carl Bereiter (2005). “Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age”, p.200, Routledge
“Fascism is meaningless because it's so completely indefinable, so where does the 'anti' come into the equation?”
“If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.”

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