"Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains."

-- Patrick Ness

#Beach Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Moving Quotes

“I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.”
“A gym for the soul is a place where personal investment is required and the return is real.”

Source : Anne Bogart (2014). “What's the Story: Essays about Art, Theater and Storytelling”, p.18, Routledge
“We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star. We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.”

Source : "Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.wwno.org. July 23, 2012.
“The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.”
“Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell (2008). “Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell”
“Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.”
“I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.”

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