"There are no ordinary lives."

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Source : "Ken Burns On “The Worst War Ever". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. August 24, 2007.

Ken Burns

#Ordinary Quotes #Ordinary Life Quotes

“There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.”

Source : "There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire" by Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2006.
“A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.”
“Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.”
“A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.”
“There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.”
“Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.”
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
“I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.”

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