"A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves."

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Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

John Millington Synge

#Islands Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Fog Quotes

“I don't care how much money he (Frank Viola) makes. He can have my locker, I'll take him to all the best restaurants and show him New York. He can even have my wife, but he can't have my number, no way.”
“But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.”
“A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet, it is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.”

Source : Arnold Haultain (2015). “Hints for Lovers: "The Secret Nature and Psychology of Love"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi
“In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.”
“There is no room for dictating taste in the diverse and dynamic world of media. To limit taste only limits the role we play for people of all kinds.”
“There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.”
“Dogs don't know about beginnings, and they don't speculate on matters that occurred before their time. Dogs also don't know - or at least don't accept - the concept of death. With no concept of beginnings or endings dogs probably don't know that for people having a dog as a life companion provides a streak of light between two eternities of darkness.”
“It's kind of like when a clock battery runs down. The hour and minute hands don't disappear, but they don't keep ticking either. They freeze on the last minute they measured.”

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