"Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions."

-- Brian Froud

#Wise Quotes #Reality Quotes #Connections Quotes

“Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.”
“I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.”
“Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.”
“You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.”

Source : John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.13, Oberon Books
“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.”
“The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.”

Source : "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli: Faith Is the Only Way Forward". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2011.
“Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?”
“Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.”

Source : Vachel Lindsay, “Factory Windows Are Always Broken”

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