"None of us is as good as we think we are. Every one of us is more than we think we can be."

-- Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

#Thinking Quotes

“It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings”
“When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.”
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.”

Source : Hermann Hesse (2012). “Demian: A Dual-Language Book”, p.18, Courier Corporation
“The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.”

Source : Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers
“No color will ever be brighter for me than black and white.”
“In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?”
“If I had the opportunity, I would make the proposal that no man should be killed except by somebody who knows him well enough for the act to have impact. No death should be like nose blowing. Death is important enough that it should affect the person who causes it.”

Source : Alexei Panshin, Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon (1968). “Rite of passage”
“I love being in the world of the unknown.”

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