"The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows."

-- George Eliot

#Air Quotes #Joy Quotes #Misery Quotes

“Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.”
“It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes”

Source : Song: Undertow, Album: Careful Confessions, 2004
“It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1999.
“A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.”
“I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies.”
“The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field of experience, but that we may make no a priori assumptions about the meaning of the word understand.”
“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.”

Source : "Fictional character: Unicorn / Lady Amalthea". "The Last Unicorn", 1982.
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

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