"There is surely no more unselfish person than the anthologist. For while all we others are striving to ensure our own immortality with eagerness, beguilements, buffooneries, loud voices, 'the sound of battle and garments rolled in blood,' the anthologist is quietly ensuring the immortality of somebody else."

-- Mary Webb

#Blood Quotes #Voice Quotes #Battle Quotes

“You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.”
“I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.”

Source : Adrian Mitchell (1997). “Heart on the Left: Poems, 1953-1984”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
“I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.”
“The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumpt”

Source : Source: sports.usatoday.com
“That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.”
“To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 145), 2002.
“We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.”

Source : 'Ode" l. 7 (1874)
“It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.”

Source : "Josh Duhamel's career goals finally coming true". www.today.com. June 24, 2009.

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