"I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education."

-- David Rockefeller

#Travel Quotes #Children Quotes #Passionate Quotes

“Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.”
“Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.”
“I am interested in beauty when it has something special and mysterious.”
“Let the things that happen on the stage be just as complex and yet just as simple as they are in life. For instance, people are having a meal, just having a meal, but at the same time their happiness is being created, or their lives are being smashed up.”
“It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.”
“Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.”

Source : Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.11, Ardent Media
“When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.”

Source : Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.96, Penguin

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