"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."

-- Edmund Wilson

#Life Quotes #Style Quotes #Orchestra Quotes

“Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.”
“The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.”

Source : Tim Lebbon (2013). “Into the Void: Star Wars Legends (Dawn of the Jedi)”, p.22, Del Rey
“The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.”
“I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.”
“We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.”
“I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the 'CBS Evening News.' You could see that the audiences were eroding.”
“The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.”

Source : "Meet Peter Higgs". CERN Video, July 2004.
“A non-violent world has roots in a non-violent diet.”

Source : "Casey Kasem, voice of Shaggy in Scooby Doo, dies on Father's Day at 82" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2014.

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