"How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend our backs toward earth To find the fittest place for burial."

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Source : William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”

William Batchelder Greene

#Time Quotes #Pain Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.”
“Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.”
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
“I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.”
“Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.”
“Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.”
“I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.”
“Modesty and dew love the shade.”

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