"The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe."

-- Jack London

#Zero Quotes #Men Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“I would just love to do 'It's a Wonderful Life.' I think that movie is fantastic.”

Source : "Matt Bomer and Tim DeKay Talk WHITE COLLAR Season 3.5; Plus Bomer Talks About Playing a Stripper in MAGIC MIKE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 8, 2012.
“On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.”
“People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal.”
“In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in turn is associated not with body building, but with building and emotional body capable of containing more than one sort of ecstasy.”
“Without mathematics, thereâ€™s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.”
“A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.”
“Most of all, I miss that feeling when you go to sleep at night and when you wake up in the morning. It's that feeling that everything is all rightin the world. You know, that amazing feeling that you're whole, that you've got everything you want, that you aren't missing anything. Sometimes when I wake up, I get it for just a moment. It lasts a few seconds, but then I remember what happened, and how nothing has been the same since”

Source : Ben Sherwood (2004). “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud”, p.110, Bantam
“A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already”

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