"But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Reading Quotes #Eye Quotes #Night Quotes

“The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air.”
“Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.”
“I pretty much ate everything that I like and I've always wanted to eat and I just didn't hold myself back and it was the best.”
“Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it...”
“Love will put a spring in your step and a bounce in your heart.”
“I have a quite feeling of pity for all those who don't know chess; almost like I am sorry for those who never learned to love. Chess, like love and music, has the ability of making people happy.”
“I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.”

Source : "Lee Daniels and Gabby Sidibe". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. November 5, 2009.
“Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.”

Source : Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.

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