"Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand...."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Hands Quotes #Sea Quotes #Land Quotes

“The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids.”

Source : Source: www.halosheaven.com
“Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.”
“Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.”

Source : Marita Golden, Susan Shreve (2011). “Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race”, p.2, Anchor
“I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.”
“I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.”
“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.”

Source : Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”
“I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.”
“I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.”

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