"We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality."

-- Simon Schama

#Cheating Quotes #Grieving Quotes #Promise Quotes

“So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.”

Source : Gennifer Choldenko (2013). “If A Tree Falls At Lunch Break”, p.131, A&C Black
“I definitely learned never to fall in love in high school because it just takes over your brain.”

Source : "Juicy Questions for... Daren Kagasoff". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. October 19, 2009.
“The most basic law of economics?that one cannot get something for nothing.”

Source : 1948 Towards a Dynamic Economics.
“Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.”
“But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!”

Source : "Juno Temple Talks LITTLE BIRDS, Sexuality vs. Violence in Film, and Playing a Fairy in MALEFICENT" by Christina Radish, collider.com. August 28, 2012.
“Keep a journal, and don't assume that your work has to accomplish anything worthy: artists and peace-workers are in it for the long haul, and not to be judged by immediate results.”
“Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.”

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