"Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order."

-- Harold Bloom

#Plato Quotes #Order Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid heâ€™d tell me Ivy had it.”
“Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.”
“Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.”
“Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are...”
“When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?”
“Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.”

Source : Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.4, Northwestern University Press
“Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.”
“I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.”

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