"She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous."

-- Jane Austen

#Ridiculous Quotes #Disposition Quotes #Lively Quotes

“Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.”
“Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend.”
“Concentration's like a shower. You don't turn it on until you want to bathe... You don't walk out of the shower and leave it running. You turn it off, you turn it on... It has to be fresh and ready when you need it.”
“I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.”

Source : "Dianne Wiest at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival". Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.
“I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life”
“Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege.”

Source : Paul Brunton (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life”
“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.”

Source : "Fictional character: Adriana". "Midnight in Paris", www.imdb.com. 2011.
“There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”

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