"I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely."

-- El Anatsui

#Thinking Quotes #Wish Quotes #Language Quotes

“Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself.”

Source : 1988 What Mad Pursuit, ch.5.
“And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.”

Source : Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown
“It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.”
“The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.”
“Mission [is] understood as being derived from the very nature of God. It [is] thus put in the context of the Trinity, not of ecclesiology or soteriology. The classical doctrine of the missio dei as God the Father sending the Son, and God the Father and the Son sending the Spirit [is] expanded to include yet another â€œmovementâ€: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit sending the church into the world.”
“The world is not changing if you donâ€™t shoulder the burden of responsibility.”

Source : Ai Weiwei @aiww, twitter.com. April 21, 2014.
“Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.”
“Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.”

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