"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."

-- Jean Racine

#Eye Quotes #Light Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Work while others are wishing.”
“But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.”
“The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.”
“I understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.”
“I wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.”

Source : Anna Banks (2013). “Of Triton”, p.241, Macmillan
“If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.”
“It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for me; I waved my notepad at the dashboard to transmit my profile, then waited as the seating and controls rearranged themselves slightly, piezoelectric actuators humming. As I started to reverse out of the parking bay, the stereo began a soothing improvisation, flashing up a deadpan title: Music for Leaving Airports 11 June 2008.”
“In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.”

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