"Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same."

-- J. B. MacKinnon

#Beautiful Quotes #Ruins Quotes #Temples Quotes

“Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.”
“Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.”

Source : Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.74, Penguin
“Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending him money; none of them beg; they keep together; and as for their being hated, why, Christians hate one another as much.”

Source : John Selden (1786). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses”, p.65
“I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.”

Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage
“I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!”
“I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.”
“The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesnt know squat.”

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