"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence."

-- Seneca the Elder

#Silence Quotes #Speech Quotes #Great Things Quotes

“To read a poem with no thought in mind but to paraphrase it into a single, simple and usually high-minded prose statement is the destruction of poetry.”
“L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.
“Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography .”
“The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?”
“Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.”
“The Neo-Pagan religious framework is based on a polytheistic outlook- a view that allows differing perspectives and ideas to coexist”

Source : Margot Adler (2006). “Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America”, p.34, Penguin
“It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.”

Source : "Q&A – Mireille Enos (Sarah Linden)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.
“You change or you hide your head in the sand.”

Source : "Tony Gilroy on The Bourne Legacy: 'Fear changes everything'" by Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2012.

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