"You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge."

-- Robert M. Pirsig

#Patterns Quotes #Looks Quotes #Where You Are Quotes

“Music that paints nothing is only noise.”
“An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.98, Vintage
“A lot of what I know as a filmmaker is because of hockey. That's teamwork, and being able to collaborate with people, and be creative with them, and get the most out of everybody. Everyone's got different talents, and you've got to bring out the best of everybody, and use your strengths and work together, and try and evolve it rather than do what was done before you, and to push into new areas.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their mysteries and secrets, they act and pretend. I like the character of men better.”
“Being an only child is a disease in itself.”

Source : "Yes, I'm an only child and, no, I'm not depressed - or beastly" by Audrey Gillan, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2013.
“Many people I've met believe that plants are made up of soil-that the tree outside your house, for example, is mostly made from the soil in which it grew. That's a common mistake. That tree is mostly made up of one of the gases in our air (carbon dioxide) and water (hydrogen and oxygen). Trees are solidified air and sunlight.”
“Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.”

Source : Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.46, Broadview Press
“The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.”

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