"The Cicada sing an endless song in the long grass, smells run along the earth and falling stars run over the sky, like tears over a cheek. You are the privileged person to whom everything is taken. The Kings of Tarshish shall bring gifts."

-- Isak Dinesen

#Running Quotes #Song Quotes #Stars Quotes

“I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.”
“Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"”
“To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.”

Source : John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.29, Health Communications, Inc.
“I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.”
“Film is more of a dream when you're younger. I found it almost impossible to see how you would get into the industry having no connections, nobody in the family being anywhere near it and never meeting anybody that had been on a set.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.”
“I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.”

Source : "The Search for Purpose in the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson". thefilmstage.com. March 20, 2017.
“I find it quite improbable that such order came out of chaos. There has to be some organizing principle. God to me is a mystery but is the explanation for the miracle of existence, why there is something instead of nothing.”

Source : "Sizing up the Cosmos: An Astronomer's Quest" by John Noble Wilford, www.nytimes.com. March 12, 1991.

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