"One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying."

-- Glen Duncan

#Flower Quotes #Silence Quotes #Dying Quotes

“My current project was shot on film, and because of that I've spent my entire day removing dust-specks from negatives. You wouldn't have to do that on digital because you don't get dust on the scanner. I say to myself, "Why am I doing this all day?" I could have just bought a digital camera and I wouldn't have to remove dust-specks ever again. But when you move closer to a film image, it has a real truth to it. And I really like that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.”
“To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”
“I guess the most interesting thing that people think is I'm English. They think that I live in England and have a British accent. When they talk to me, at first they go, "Man, you have a great American accent," and I go, "No, no, no, this is my accent. I don't do accents." And then they're really disappointed, and they try to punch me.”
“Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.”
“Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.”

Source : "Leeza Gibbons: Star in the World of Alzheimer’s Caregiving" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2016.
“Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.”
“Why's my name the Large Professor? Cause I milked your cow, in other words I hit your heifer.”

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