"History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard."

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Source : 1967 In the Observer,12 Feb.

Archibald MacLeish

#Spots Quotes #Occasional Quotes #Concerts Quotes

“Heart always wins out over the mind. The heart, although reckless and suicidal and a ***** all on its own, always gets its way.”
“I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing.”
“You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with you where it's one mind and one body. You may spend your whole life chasing that, but it's a good thing to chase.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.”
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
“For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.”

Source : "Columbia University Student Will Drag Her Mattress Around Campus Until Her Rapist Is Gone" by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2014.
“So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.”

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