"Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions."

-- Charles Jencks

#Running Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Sunflower Quotes

“Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.”

Source : Jean Vanier (2010). “Living Gently in a Violent World (Large Print 16pt)”, p.55, ReadHowYouWant.com
“If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.”
“We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.”
“Put your future in good hands. Your own.”
“The rich invest their money and spend what is left; the poor spend their money and invest what is left.”
“Such figures as Boy George do not disturb me nearly so much as do those relentlessly hetero (sexual?) keepers of the keys and seals, those who know what the world needs in the way of order and who are ready and willing to supply that order.”
“I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.”
“When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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