"A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves."

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Source : Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.88, 谷月社

Aphra Behn

#Soul Quotes #Mind Quotes #World Quotes

“I donâ€™t have to play football for money.”
“Cutlure looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, - the passion for sweetness and light.”
“When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.”

Source : "Ready for Takeoff". Interview with Laura Linney, www.latimes.com.
“Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.”
“I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.”
“There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, It appears That in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.”
“Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.”
“Happiness is a way of travelling and not a final destination.”

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