"Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!"

-- Elinor Glyn

#Running Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Animal Quotes

“I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.”
“None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.12, Delacorte Press
“He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.”

Source : Guy Debord (1998). “Comments on the Society of the Spectacle”, p.31, Verso
“I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.”
“Whoever has Heart's doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom.”
“I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.”
“I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.”
“The moral: Don't settle for anything less than the biggest dream for your future Fight to make the dream come true.”

Source : Michael Shurtleff (2009). “Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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