"To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Lonely Quotes #Memories Quotes #Life And Love Quotes

“the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.”
“Into The Wild" had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved and "Unforgiven" is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.”

Source : "Meet the 2011 Sundance Filmmakers | “Mad Bastards” Director Brendan Fletcher". www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2011.
“By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!”
“But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?”
“There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its worship, its spiritual culture; but he rejects the religious view of life, the view which sets all earthly issues within the context of the eternal, the view which relates all human problems social, political, cultural to the doctrinal foundations of the Christian Faith, the view which sees all things here below in terms of God's supremacy and earth's transitoriness, in terms of Heaven and Hell.”

Source : "The Christian Mind: How Should a Christian Think?". Book by Harry Blamires, 1963.
“Vision without execution is delusion.”
“But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.”
“I used to be a dusty little child.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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