"Nothing that doesnâ€™t push you past your limits can change your life. Itâ€™s true of work, itâ€™s true of parenting, and itâ€™s true â€” a hundred times over â€” of love."

-- Katherine Center

#Past Quotes #Limits Quotes #Changing Your Life Quotes

“Imperfection means perfection hid.”
“I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.”

Source : "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.
“I think there's over-telling sometimes, in fiction. For instance, I'm a big fan of horror movies, but I could always lose the last third of them. There's the brilliant exciting scary thing that's going on, and then they have to show you the monster, and the monster turns out to be a giant spider from space and then you push it over and it's dead. It becomes mortal and it has human needs and it always sort of feels like a shame. Maybe because of all the cop shows and such, we're a generation that needs to have problems solved for us in fiction.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary color contrasts that nourish the actual rhythm of my vision. In this I find the actual essence, an essence which is not born out of an a priori system or theory.”
“...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books
“For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.”
“Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.”
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

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