"What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?"

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Stars Quotes #Feet Quotes #Light Quotes

“It's only happened to me once [crying in the end of the film] - the end of Forrest Gump. I think it's sad because the moral of the film is that you can have no brain whatsoever and still make it in this world. That made me terribly depressed.”

Source : Source: www.vice.com
“Human behavior is timeless.”
“Good means ultimately he's producing character in me to conform me into the image of Christ.”

Source : Source: culteducation.com
“You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.”

Source : David Maraniss (2016). “Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.”
“Most departments of education are set up largely to regulate schools and hold them in compliance. They don't really help schools. When a school is struggling with certain kids, they can't go to the state and say, "Can you help us with resources and training?" That should be their role.”

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