"I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph."

-- Robert Bringhurst

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Together Quotes

“I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.”
“The great mass of people judge well of things, for they are in natural ignorance, which is man's true state.”
“It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.”
“You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like youâ€™re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyoneâ€”not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffeeâ€”push you around.”
“[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”
“[The Joker is a] psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. ... Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.”
“I lost 90 pounds and my blood pressure went down to a normal level and the salt in my urine disappeared. And that was when I had to make the transition from fat character actor to thin character actor.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious”

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