"When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer."

-- Cornelia Funke

#Heart Quotes #Reason Quotes #Helpless Quotes

“It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.”
“The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment! There should be an outcry on this obvious conflict of interest, but to date either few recognize this conflict, or see that since the recommendations of the IPCC fit their policy and political agenda, they chose to ignore this conflict. In either case, scientific rigor has been sacrificed and poor policy and political decisions will inevitably follow.”
“There's a band of studio session - hot players - that play on my albums... They're an eclectic bunch of misfits that I've worked with for years and years.”
“Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.”
“And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.”
“I saw this wino, he was eating grapes. I was like, "Dude, you have to wait".”

Source : Live album: "Mitch All Together". Track 3 "Not Track Five, Not Chainsaw Juggler", December 9, 2003.
“The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.”

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