Quotes
Authors
Christine Jennings

"Margaret Fuller was already a celebrity, travelling around the world. Emerson, who was the axis around which that whole community turned, just didn't like Fourier's ideas very much. He thought it was all too rigid and programmatic. He said, "Fourier had skipped no fact but one, namely life." He thought it was an inhumane system - the day is scheduled too precisely. He didn't think it would work, and he was right."

Source : Source: therumpus.net

Christine Jennings

#Thinking Quotes #Axes Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have been perplexed, looking for something I could not define to myself, a certain book has turned up, approached me as a friend would. And between it's cover carried the questions and the answers I was looking for.”
“I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?”
“Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I donâ€™t think that sex is my Muse.”

Source : Peter Murphy (2015). “Lagan Love”, p.81, Fiction Studio Books
“He worked at stealing her heart to replace the one she'd taken from him.”
“Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme”
“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).”
“History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a certain event. And so that's why I go, "Wow. That's what acting really is. You find out the background, you get the joy of creating a fictional history of a fictional character and you get to tell a story." So I felt that acting is making history come alive and it became my mode of trying to figure out what this craft of acting is really all about.”
“As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.”

You may also like: