"The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling."

-- Ivan Turgenev

#Running Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm always looking for a girlfriend.”
“We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.”
“I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle”
“The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.”
“Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.”

Source : 1956 'Roll over Beethoven'.
“I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.”
“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”
“When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.”

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