"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."

-- Elle Macpherson

#Talking Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization.”
“In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer, people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In Germany, my voice stood out more.”

Source : "Singer Nneka tells world of love and injustice in Nigeria" by Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 1, 2010.
“Every time you're making a choice, one choice is the safe/comfortable choice - and one choice is the risky/uncomfortable choice. the risky/uncomfortable choice is the one that will teach you the most and make you grow the most, so that's the one you should choose.”
“We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be â€˜lost in the objectivity of world-loveâ€™, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is â€˜eternalâ€™ life.”

Source : Don Cupitt (2010). “Theology's Strange Return”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
“This will sound like I grew up on another planet, except for those people who are past 55, 60 maybe. When I was growing up, my mother and her generation basically felt that you should only work as a way of passing time until you got married and had at least two children. And the only careers that were open for women at the time was teacher or nurse - which are fantastic careers, I mean fantastic and I actually am a former math teacher.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.”
“Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity.”
“Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.”

Source : Hudson Stuck (1918). “The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley): A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America”

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