"I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not."

-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking Quotes #Violence Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.”

Source : 'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75
“I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.”
“Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.”

Source : "The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Winter, § 24, p. 287, 1903.
“Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.”
“I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.”
“'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'”
“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.”
“If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?”

Source : "Big Think Interview with David Wessel". bigthink.com. November 20, 2009.

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