"We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Stars Quotes #Dawn Quotes #Sneer Quotes

“Life has always been a small matter with me when duty points the way”
“When I am dead, no pageant train shall waste their sorrows at my bier. Nor worthless pomp of homage vain stain it with hypocritic tear.”

Source : Edward Everett (1836). “Life and Speeches”
“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
“Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no one can understand it (especially not "moms," who are always invoked as the ultimate know-nothings, which is incredibly insulting to a whole lot of people).”
“I Repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my Music, and more importantly, my Life has not provoked you into Godly Jealousy or to SELL OUT MORE COMPLETELY TO JESUS!”
“I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.”
“If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.”
“I'm not a sci-fi lover; I wasn't from the start. So perhaps I miss that passion for other worlds, other dimensions, that sort of scope and that magnitude of storytelling; that's not my thing though I meet plenty of people whose thing it definitely is.”

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

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