"How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you canâ€™t even understand one another?"

-- Stanislaw Lem

#Ocean Quotes #Communicate Quotes

“Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.”
“Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.”
“Asperger's doesn't define me. It's aÂ condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.”

Source : "Susan Boyle: 'I have Asperger's'" by Catherine Deveney, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.
“Our strengths are not many. Our weaknesses are a lot.”
“Any claims on the truth in my pictures are only to be answered in the sense that a particular event did in fact happen and did take place in the here and now.”
“Always try to be modest, and be proud of it!”
“People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, itâ€™s a gay film. . . .Â I think thatâ€™s really simplistic. Heterosexuality to me is a structure as much as it is a content. It is an imposed structure that goes along with the patriarchal, dominant structure that constrains and defines society. If homosexuality is the opposite or counter-sexual activity to that, then what kind of a structure would it be?”

Source : "What’s Happening to ‘Queer’ Cinema in the LGBT Film Boom?" by E. Alex Jung, www.vulture.com. May 16, 2018.
“Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.”

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