"Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns."

-- Ben Jonson

#Home Quotes #Joy Quotes #Barns Quotes

“All art of the past must be destroyed.”

Source : "Remembering French Composer, Conductor And Musical Provocateur Pierre Boulez". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 2016.
“In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair”

Source : "For more wonder, rewild the world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2013.
“When Time is spent, Eternity begins.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson, “The Victory Of Patience”
“Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic, or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss, then you must learn to control you... the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.”
“It's innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but that's what I am. My wife and I and our family will do everything we can to support Obama. I like his ideas, I like his energy, and I like the statement he would make for our country to the world.”
“In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.”
“Man shouldnâ€™t be able to see his own face â€“ thereâ€™s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”
“You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.”

Source : Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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