"Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. Here we came about-slowly, ever so slowly-on a sky-swept savannah glowing with menace."

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Source : ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

Robert Ardrey

#Father Quotes #Home Quotes #Glowing Quotes

“The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off all pretentiousness and attitudinizing.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (1987). “If You Want to Write”
“If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.”
“I didnâ€™t know what was more disturbingâ€”the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the worldâ€™s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door.”
“I mean, there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios, networks are starting to throw more resources, better writers, more production values... and to be part of that is awesome.”
“I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.”
“You ought to have seen Frédéric with his monocle, his greying whiskers, his calm demeanour, carving his plump quack-quack, trussed and already flamed, throwing it into the pan, preparing the sauce, salting and peppering like Claude Monet's paintings, with the seriousness of a judge and the precision of a mathematician, and opening up, with a sure hand, in advance, every perspective of taste.”
“[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.”
“I'm for gay marriage. I've been married for 14 years. Marriage is not for everybody, it's not easy and divorce is there for a reason. If a gay person wants to get married, get married.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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