"When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through."

-- Michael Palin

#Notebook Quotes #Eye Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.”

Source : Scoop Nisker, Wes Nisker (1990). “Crazy Wisdom”
“I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.”
“I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.”

Source : Marilyn Horne, Jane Scovell (1983). “Marilyn Horne, my life”, Scribner
“If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.”
“There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.”

Source : Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.263, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.”
“My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.”
“His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.”

Source : Maile Meloy (2010). “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”, p.173, Canongate Books

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