"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."

-- Seamus Heaney

#Self Quotes #Intimate Quotes #Crisis Quotes

“It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.”
“I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.”
“Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.”
“Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly”

Source : Joe Orton (2014). “Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...”, p.14, A&C Black
“Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.”
“A gentleman is someone who never gives offense unintentionally.”
“I don't sweat the Internet. You know, it's still something I enjoy as a movie geek myself to get on and, like, look at all the websites; however, when it comes to marketing a movie, the Internet is still not the thing that gets people to the theatre.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 26, 2008.
“To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be an idealistic choice taken for purely idealistic reasons. Now it is an act of intelligent and almost desperate self-defense.”

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