"I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight."

-- Anthony Horowitz

#Sight Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Magic Quotes

“I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.”
“I'd say probably the most epic experience was before the Victoria's Secret show - I think it was before the casting - and I saw Naomi Campbell at a party. I was saying that I was nervous about my walk and she said "Come to my hotel tomorrow and we're going to practice." So I went in New York and we practiced in the hallway of her hotel with all of the hotel staff watching. She just said "Don't even flinch. Keep going!" It was hilarious, but I think that was kind of a confidence booster.”
“Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a combat zone not to pay attention to it. At least that's how it struck me; others may have had an entirely different war experience.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.”
“There's too many interesting women I haveâ€¦not had the experience to know in this life because I have been brainwashed.”
“I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.”
“Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.”
“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”

Source : Maxim Gorky (2016). “Creatures That Once Were Men”, p.39, The Floating Press

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