"reach isnâ€™t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: itâ€™s simultaneous."

-- Jennifer Egan

#Causes Quotes #Simultaneous Quotes #Cause And Effect Quotes

“I have actually gotten to like fear ...”

Source : Pearl White (1919). “Just Me”
“Reading messed with my brain in an unaccountable way. It made me happy; or something.”

Source : "Where I Learned To Read" by Salvatore Scibona, www.newyorker.com. June 13, 2011.
“Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.”
“Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.”
“I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.”
“Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]”
“In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA.”
“And of course in America you've got American football and baseball and all those other ball games, soccer has become a little niche that the women have kind of filled.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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