"The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world."

-- Cathy Freeman

#Motivational Quotes #Meaningful Quotes #Athlete Quotes

“I used to steal a lot. But I don't do that anymore, because I believe in karma.”
“We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.”
“Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty [Martin] Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant [to the] director was to make the collection available to interested people.”
“During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.”
“I wanted my closet to look like a boutique.”
“As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.”
“The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.”
“The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experienceâ€”it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (2015). “The Writing of the Disaster”, p.16, U of Nebraska Press

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