"Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: thatâ€™s when you get shooting stars."

-- Vladimir Nabokov

#Stars Quotes #Angel Quotes #Mind Quotes

“After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.”
“I thought I had mono for a year...Turns out I was just really bored.”
“I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.”
“Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.”
“May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!”
“The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people think.”
“So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone”
“You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.”

Source : "John Simm interview: 'I don't really do awards'" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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