"I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint."

-- Shin Kyung-sook

#Knowing Quotes #Way Quotes #Restraint Quotes

“With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.”
“We tend by a secret law of the soul to move towards our mental image of God.”
“Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word that includes more than what people consider is encompassed by classification. It is more than that, and it's something which can be called phenomenology.”

Source : Interview with David DeVorkin, www.aip.org. August 8, 1978.
“But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.”

Source : Edith Wharton (2016). “Early Short Stories: American Literature”, p.143, VM eBooks
“I'm sweetly broken, wholly surrendered.”

Source : Song: Sweetly Broken, Album: Full Attention
“I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel”
“I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me”

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