"Say, it's only a paper moon, Sailing over a cardboard sea, But it wouldn't be make believe, If you believed in me."

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Source : "It's Only a Paper Moon" (song) (1933). Cowritten with E. Y. Harburg.

Billy Rose

#Believe Quotes #Moon Quotes #Sea Quotes

“Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.”

Source : Rosamund Lupton (2010). “Sister”, p.44, Hachette UK
“The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.”
“Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.”
“I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”
“When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!”
“The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is there any harm in skipping all that, in letting the school boy learn multiplication sums, and in starting his more abstract reasoning at a more advanced point. Where would be the harm in letting the boy assume the truth of many propositions of the first four books of Euclid, letting him assume their truth partly by faith, partly by trial?”
“Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed to immutable.”
“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.”

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