"Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night."

-- Mark Strand

#Summer Quotes #Strong Quotes #Passion Quotes

“I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.”

Source : "Fantasia Barrino Is Third 'American Idol'". www.foxnews.com. May 27, 2004.
“[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis ...”
“O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.”
“I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.”

Source : "This much I know: Chris O'Dowd" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.
“I can't imagine any greater fear Than waking up without you here And though the sun would still shine on My whole world would all be gone”

Source : Song: No Place That Far
“Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine”
“Texture and pattern should function as a surprise.”

Source : "The Sweet Smell of Excess" by Patricia Volk, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2006.
“When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the 'graduate student syndrome'; graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery.”

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