"Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story."

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

#Night Quotes #Towns Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.”
“I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.”
“I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.”
“A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.”
“If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
“I want to show you something,â€ I say. What?â€ He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment Iâ€™m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. â€œCal?â€ I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.”
“Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.”
“The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.”

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