"I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves."

-- John Updike

#Life Is Too Short Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.”

Source : Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.98, Taylor & Francis
“It doesn't make you bad losing to Rob Van Dam... it just makes you like everybody else.”
“Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.”
“When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.”
“I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.”
“So we didn't get the denominations and the separate congregations really till about into Civil War time. What's happened then, of course, is now that we've had well over 100 years of this history to establish separate cultures, different ways of worshipping, and different ways of understanding theology so that when people try to come together makes it very difficult. And then, of course, social networks, you know, how do we find a place to worship?”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.”

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