"I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house."

-- Marian Keyes

#House Quotes #Personality Quotes #Despair Quotes

“It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences have an "inner" side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.”
“Once you make the decision that you will not fail, the heart and the body will follow.”
“OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to make money.”
“I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.”

Source : Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.169
“Any take, anything that's recorded while the mic is on, that could be the final take.”
“Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.”
“Teaching people the best way to market organically with Facebook, is like teaching them the best way to butter bread, with a spoon.”
“It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama.”

Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”

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