"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty."

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Source : Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

George Santayana

#Life Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Aggravation Quotes

“I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.”
“You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.”
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.”
“I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.”
“Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.”

Source : "Lost in Space" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. April 23, 2013.
“I had seen Cheers twice, I think. Ted [Danson] had so much hair in his widow's peak that I remember thinking, "That dude looks like Eddie Munster."”

Source : "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been" by Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.
“Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?”
“When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.”

Source : James Montgomery (1860). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: In Six Volumes. Original hymns ; Appendix of posthumous poems”, p.104

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