"Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders."

-- Martha Gellhorn

#Inquiring Quotes #Outsiders Quotes #Bureaucracy Quotes

“Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!”
“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”

Source : Mark Haddon (2012). “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Vintage Children's Classics”, p.94, Random House
“I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.”
“I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.”

Source : Dan Winters (2014). “Road to Seeing”, p.1967, New Riders
“All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.”
“Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.”
“A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!”
“Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.”

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