"Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge."

-- Sun Ra

#Bridges Quotes #People Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as the oak grows from the acorn, or the harvest from the scattered grain. It is not that love to Christ merits heaven; it does far better, it makes heaven. It is, as it were, the organ of sensation that takes note of heaven's blessedness.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 401), 1895.
“It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .”
“If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.”
“I make jokes. That's what I do.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mike Scarlatti". "Flashpoint (TV Series): Blue on Blue", www.imdb.com. 2011.
“And when he catches me looking at him, he gives me this incredibly sweet, calm smile, and I think that we've got our lives ahead of us, our whole lives.”

Source : Delphine de Vigan (2010). “No and Me”, p.96, A&C Black
“Once, I'd written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of the barrel, and a straight horizontal line, indicating the trajectory of the bullet. So that page was sent back to me from the Code office, saying that the particular panel was too violent. I asked them what they meant, and they told me--I swear--"The puff of smoke is too big." Well, of course. So I had the artist make the smoke a little smaller, and the youth of America was saved.”
“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”
“Disappear, she says. I love that word.”

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