"Not all speed is movement."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Movement Quotes #Speed Quotes

“Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2003). “Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
“Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.”
“You know, the primary process itself is very confusing. But in the end, I guess I believe what Winston Churchill said, which is that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. And that phrase of his, which I always have previously thought to be kind of acute, more recently I've thought of it in this way, to say well, you know what, he's also saying it's the worst form of government - except for all of the others.”

Source : "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.
“Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.”
“Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?”
“Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.”

Source : Norman Rockwell, Maureen Hart Hennessey, Anne Knutson, High Museum of Art, Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge (1999). “Norman Rockwell: pictures for the American people”, Harry N. Abrams
“That seems like one of the differences in expectations of "serious" and "popular" music that you can actually depend on the liner notes to explain yourself? Yeah. Whereas in popular music you depend on photo shoots. A hardcore band who looked like Duran Duran would have to depend upon those liner notes.”
“If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.”

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