"The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?"

-- Honore de Balzac

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“When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our lives, and I started picturing myself majoring in dance at college traveling around with a contemporary dance company, and it didn't excite me as I thought it would all those years. I was just thinking about the things that I loved most about dance, which was entertaining and telling a story, and that's when I kind of opened my eyes again to acting.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“I am just a guy who plays drums.”
“Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.”

Source : Francis Harold Cook, Francis Dojun Cook, Eihei Dogen (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
“My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. Â The big design problem is designing your life.Â It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. Â You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.”
“Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.”
“The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.”
“She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.”
“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

Source : Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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