"A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a kind of language-magic, the power that certain words possess to enchant our imaginative relations with Nature and landscape."

-- Robert Macfarlane

#Fall Quotes #Magic Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that.”
“It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.”

Source : Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster
“I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.”
“Health is never going to go out of fashion.”
“I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his head. I will give him steadiness, brilliancy and speed; but I cannot endow him with that fire and intelligence, those graces and that expression of feeling which is the soul of true pantomime.”
“As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.”
“We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.”

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