"When the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel."

-- Thomas Dolby

#Ocean Quotes #Character Quotes #Ice Quotes

“What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.”
“All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.”

Source : "God and the State". Book by Mikhail Bakunin, 1883.
“Trust yourself,..dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?”
“Although the progress of civilisation has undoubtedly contributed to assuage the fiercer passions of human nature, it seems to have been less favourable to the virtue of chastity, whose most dangerous enemy is the softness of the mind. The refinements of life corrupt while they polish the intercourse of the sexes. The gross appetite of love becomes most dangerous when it is elevated, or rather, indeed, disguised by sentimental passion.”
“I'm not sure where I heard it or why I believed it but when I was in my mid-twenties, a few words changed my approach to and experience of prayer. The words were these: 'Every thought you think is a prayer. Every word you speak is a prayer. Every act in which you engage is a prayer, because the Spirit of God lives in you.' Now, how awesome is that?”
“And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'”
“Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.”

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