"The State, that cawing rookery of committees and subcommittees."

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V. S. Pritchett

#States Quotes #Committees Quotes

“Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how he tries to work.”
“You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.”
“The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.”

Source : "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Search for the Real in the Visual Arts", p. 45, 1948.
“His love was like the liberal air, embracing all, to cheer and bless.”
“A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers”
“If we surrendered to earthâ€™s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle, lonely and confused. So like children, we begin again... to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. (from the poem "How Sure Gravity's Law")”
“I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never together, and what a waste they have been--of each other, and of love, which is the most unpardonable waste there is. Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.”
“Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.”

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