"Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?"

-- Philip Johnson

#Moving Quotes #Doors Quotes #Tears Quotes

“With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.”

Source : "Sugababes rule out autobiography" by David Balls, www.digitalspy.com. December 10, 2008.
“The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.”
“It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.”
“I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“People who have left the group talk about how a religious inspiration took them to ISIS. It was their feeling of being marginalized as Muslims in the society where they were living, and then buying into the promise of a caliphate and of a Muslim land that is governed as in the time of the prophet. I have yet to meet anybody, or speak to anybody, who was not religiously motivated at some level.”
“This is a magical and inspiring metaphor through which adult readers will identify anger issues and discover practical methods to energize enduring change.”
“As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made truth of what appeared to be. The days that passed, in becoming weeks, still did not disturb the surface an assumption had created. The weather of a beautiful summer continued with neither sign nor hint that credence had been misplaced. The single sandal found among the rocks became a sodden image of death; and as the keening on the pier at Kilauran traditionally marked distres brought by the sea, so did silence at Lahardane.”

Source : William Trevor (2011). “The Story of Lucy Gault”, p.36, Penguin UK

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