"The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with."

-- Renata Adler

#Magic Quotes #Plot Quotes

“Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way.”
“You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.”
“That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these divine attributes. In that world there is need of spirituality, faith, assurance, the knowledge and love of God. These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him.”
“I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.”
“I quit karate originally because it wasn't something that I was initially passionate about.”
“There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”

Source : "Finding Viggo" by Alex Kuczynski, Vanity Fair, January 1, 2004.
“Yesterday is past. Tomorrow is only a promise. Only today is legal tender.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster
“The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... Everything else passes away; that which you love remains.”

Source : Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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