"You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures."

-- Gao Xingjian

#Memories Quotes #Trying Quotes #Filters Quotes

“If you're not spending 80 percent of your time marketing and selling, you are headed for trouble.”
“Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.523, New Directions Publishing
“Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.”
“To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.”
“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”

Source : "Lanterns and Lances‎". Book by James Thurber, p. 146, 1961.
“Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Kevin James is going to do a couple of specials. One's called It's Getting Muggy In Here.”
“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasnâ€™t yet lived.”

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