"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Music Quotes #Fear Quotes #Failure Quotes

“Although a lot of pain for a little screen time; Shaving legs, waxing eyebrows, high heels, trying to put on a bra, losing weight because women's clothes are SO revealing - Ladies you have my respect.”
“I want to give you something.â€ He slid the ring off his finger. â€œUp until this week, Iâ€™ve never wanted anything more in my life than to wear this ring. Not as a piece of jewelry, but because I thought I could find meaning in saving others, in being a hero. But the meaning Iâ€™ve finally found in my life is from meeting you.â€ He set the ring on the palm of his hand and held it out. â€œI want you to have it.”
“humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.”
“I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.”
“I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.”

Source : "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.
“The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.4, New York Review of Books
“The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.”
“Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and equitable peace system requires equal development opportunities for all nations.”

Source : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”

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