"I would compete in unicorn back riding! Why? Because we are from the same fairytale."

-- Sasha Pivovarova

#Fairytale Quotes #Unicorn Quotes

“With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.”
“The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.”
“Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world (for what is there in God which is not God?), and he with his own image reached down to humanity.”
“Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.”
“Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.”
“A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown ... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”
“I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great medium for that. It happens in an instant, but it gives you hours or days of time to reflect on things. Itâ€™s a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on. Itâ€™s pure philosophy. And poetry.”
“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India

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