"Now then, Pooh," said Christopher Robin, "where's your boat?" "I ought to say," explained Pooh as they walked down to the shore of the island, "that it isn't just an ordinary sort of boat. Sometimes it's a Boat, and sometimes it's more of an Accident. It all depends." "Depends on what?" "On whether I'm on the top of it or underneath it."

-- A. A. Milne

#Islands Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Robins Quotes

“There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.”
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”

Source : Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)
“The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.”
“Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.”
“America is the only major country that tries to ascertain who was the first applicant to invent the product or procedure. This may seem fair, but long proceedings to determine precisely when each party conceived an idea result mostly in keeping innovations from hitting the market.”
“Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.”
“The way that you have cut the film, you can take the audience out of the action if it becomes evident that there is a stunt double doing it rather than the actor. I'd rather stay with the character and the story point behind the fight, rather than cutting to a wide angle of the fight.”
“In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.”

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