"Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead."

-- George Eliot

#Joy Quotes #Woe Quotes #Thread Quotes

“There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.”
“I was lucky to have parents who loved me.”
“I learned a lesson that I keep learning over and over, and that is that the most fun is to watch our main characters interact with each other. The most fun comes from their tight interaction.”
“I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.”
“Ask most people who live in a home and have a mortgage on it whether they own their own home and the answer is almost guaranteed to be a resounding 'yes'. Yet it's the wrong answer. Technically speaking, until they have paid the mortgage off, they don't own it. Herein lies the difference between reality and illusion, between ownership and control. This confusion lies not only at the individual level, but also at the heart of government thinking.”

Source : Dambisa Moyo (2011). “How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead”, p.68, Penguin UK
“Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it.”
“I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.”
“There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.”

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