"I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam."

-- Anne Rice

#Stars Quotes #Fall Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.”
“With stand-up you meet almost constant rejection. You put yourself out there with your thoughts and your ideas, and you think they're funny, and you hope other people think they're funny too. The only way you're going to find out is when you do it and what the reaction is going to be. So if you're not prepared for that, if you're not willing to go along with that, it's going to be a rough road. But beyond stand-up, in terms of auditioning for acting roles, you don't get most of the roles you audition for - you get a precious few.”

Source : Source: music.avclub.com
“It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 15, 2010
“Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.”
“Perm in your hair or even a curly weave, Wichya New Edition Bobby Brown button on your sleeve. I tell you come here, you say, 'Meet me half way,' Cause brothers been popping that game all day.”
“The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world...”
“The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press
“I never won an Oscar... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas”

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