"I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker."

-- Malachy McCourt

#Foundation Quotes #Liquid Quotes #Used Quotes

“... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.”
“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.”

Source : The Times, September 8, 1977.
“art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself ...”
“Before every shot, I go to the movies”
“God created, Linnaeus ordered.”
“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”
“If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation.”

Source : "Please Don't Eat the Daisies". Book by Jean Kerr, 1957.
“The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?”

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