"No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars."

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Source : As quoted in "De Divinatione" by Cicero, Book II, Chapter XIII,

Quintus Ennius

#Stars Quotes #Feet Quotes

“All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.”
“Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”
“What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?”
“We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.”
“Hyypia rises like a giraffe to head the ball clear”
“I probably had the most fun recording For Richer For Poorer in Nashville.”
“Compared to the spoken word, a picture is a pitiful thing, indeed.”
“Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.”

Source : Don McCullin (2010). “Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography”, p.4, Random House

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