"A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows."

-- Orville Dewey

#Teaching Quotes #Mean Quotes #Loss Quotes

“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
“I hate puppets so much.”
“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.”
“The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.”

Source : "The Black Room". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 108, 1971.
“I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.”
“The world itself makes us sick of the world.”
“The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get ideas. Sometimes I don't travel to do research, but mostly I do. It takes a long time, but do I ever get tired of it? Not really. The characters kind of grow and evolve.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.”

Source : Donna Jo Napoli (2012). “Bound”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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