"I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled."

-- Cate Tiernan

#Rivers Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Slave Quotes

“I've always wanted to act since I was little.”
“Citizendium is based on the failings and unreliability of Wikipedia.”

Source : Jewish Chronicle, October 26, 2006.
“The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.”
“There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.”

Source : Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.515, Simon and Schuster
“Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.”
“Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice.”
“I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share the same emotional experiences -- it's too intimate. I like to be emotional in private.”

Source : Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions
“People love real human chemistries and if you can put it on the screen you are going to get people's hearts; you're going to go straight to them. That's one of the secrets of life.”

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