"People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boringâ€”they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance youâ€”you're one in a million. You're happyâ€”"

-- Anton Chekhov

#Destiny Quotes #People Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.”
“Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.”
“Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.”
“Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.159, Spectra
“For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.”
“Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?”

Source : Song: Lessons Learned, Album: Nether Lands, 1977
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
“For me, what was important was to record everything I saw around me, and to do this as methodically as possible. In these circumstances a good photograph is a picture that comes as close as possible to reality. But the camera never manages to record what your eyes see, or what you feel at the moment. The camera always creates a new reality.”

Source : Alfredo Jaar, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, Spain) (1998). “Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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