"Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in."

-- Mary Ann Shaffer

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #Grace Quotes

“I'm better than I used to be. Better than I was yesterday. But hopefully not as good as I'll be tomorrow.”
“I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.”
“diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.”
“American films are the best films. This is a fact. Cinema is - along with Jazz - the great American art form. And cinema in a very real sense created the American identity that has been exported around the world.”

Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". James West and Ben Dreyfuss conversation, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
“Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.”
“That's immortality my darlings" Spencer said.”
“If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but itâ€™s also an absolute miracle, that youâ€™re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water thatâ€™s run by a weak electrical signal, and youâ€™re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listenerâ€™s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. Thatâ€™s miraculous, and thatâ€™s where I live.”

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