"In 1600, when Shakespeares audience at the Globe heard Hamlet for the first time, every one of them knew very well what it meant to be handed a cup of wine by a figure of authority and told to drink."

-- Neil MacGregor

#Wine Quotes #Cups Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.”

Source : "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.
“Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.”
“I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.”
“And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!”
“You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.”
“To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.”

Source : "The land of the long white cloud" by Eleanor Catton, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2013.
“Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age weâ€™re living in All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims â€“ the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.”

Source : Interview with William Wright, 1950.

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