"The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world."

-- Stacy Allison

#Air Quotes #World Quotes #Empty Quotes

“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.”

Source : Hamid Dabashi (2001). “Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future”, p.15, Verso
“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.”
“It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.”
“Of all our studies, it is history that is best qualified to reward our research.”
“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”

Source : James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.392, Library of America
“There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.”
“I want to be 82 and doing movies with Paolo Sorrentino where people are like, "This is gold."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.”

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