"He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action."

-- Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Greatness Quotes #Action Quotes #Common Quotes

“The important thing is not the camera but the eye.”

Source : Oral Roberts (1978). “The Daily Guide to Miracles”
“Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.”
“Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.”
“BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.”
“I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.”
“I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press
“When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.”
“That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.”

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