"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition."

-- W. H. Auden

#Eye Quotes #Hands Quotes #Bored Quotes

“When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.”
“Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be ... I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find.”
“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”

Source : Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.415, Random House
“I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me”
“To study history is to study literature.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”
“How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?”
“I came to feel as protective of Elijah as Sam does of Frodo .. In turn, Elijah helped me discover a lot about myself and I literally might not have survived the journey had this young prince of an actor not taken me under his wing.”

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