"Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Country Quotes #Space Quotes #Islands Quotes

“I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.”
“Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'”
“Understanding people's difficulties and-just as crucial-helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.”
“I'm not from Indianapolis, but I like living in Indianapolis. If I were to explain it, I'd tell someone to imagine a city that perfectly captures the best and the worst of America. Imagine the truly American city, because that's what it is.”
“You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.”

Source : Interview with Claude Nielson, old.augusta.com. April 5, 2005.
“Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.”
“I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.”
“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns â€¦it is safe to predict thatâ€¦ such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”

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