"In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects."

-- David Knopfler

#Taken Quotes #Way Quotes #Honest Quotes

“It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.”
“Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.”
“When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?”
“What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe culture; that has been happening for a long time. What they've now done is gone a step further: They've now taken the very idea that there is any dissent at all - it doesn't even matter what form it takes - and made it part of how they're going to sell something.”
“When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.”
“Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember.”
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again”

Source : "The English Patient". www.imdb.com. 1996.
“We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”

Source : "Wildwood". Book by Colin Meloy, August 30, 2011.

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