"Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust."

-- Alcuin

#Art Quotes #Fate Quotes #Dust Quotes

“Life is short, have dessert first.”
“Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.”
“Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.”
“I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another.”
“We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.”
“The fact of the matter is that hope comes from many sources. I think depending on the federal government to be some sort of a savior is false hope.”
“Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.”

Source : "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.

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