"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours"

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Source : The History Boys, www.imdb.com. 2006.

Alan Bennett

#Taken Quotes #Reading Quotes #Book Quotes

“The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.”
“To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet.Â It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.”

Source : Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870). “The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle”, p.409, New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press
“Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.”

Source : Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”
“Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world â€” a place where they are one.”
“Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.”
“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”
“The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.”

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