"I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas."

-- Robert Ryan

#Character Quotes #Eye Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Music or the color of the sea are easier to describe than the taste of one of these Armoricaines ...”

Source : Eleanor Clark (2014). “The Oysters of Locmariaquer”, p.6, Harper Collins
“Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.”
“Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.”

Source : Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)
“When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.”
“The best theory is inspired by practice.”
“To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.”
“She wished heâ€™d stop touching her. Not because she didnâ€™t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.”
“When I do interviews, sometimes I'll just be like "Why the hell did I say that?" because after I hang up the phone I realize there were so many things I could have said, but my brain just goes on lockdown. There's something about having conversations with people that's so much different from just singing and playing guitar. And I think a lot of people are actually performers because of that. I can't really explain why. It's like just the only chance you have in life to feel really good and outgoing.”

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