"Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence."

-- Brian Skerry

#Ocean Quotes #Years Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.”
“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”
“It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. Â No one is born with that skill. Â It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. Â And it takes time. . . . If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.”
“Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.”
“Greatness is its own torment.”
“Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”

Source : W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com
“Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch â€“ this is the Capitolâ€™s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.”
“I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.”

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