"For to wish to forget how much you loved someone-- and then, to actually forget-- can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart."

-- Maggie Nelson

#Beautiful Quotes #Heart Quotes #Bird Quotes

“The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.”
“I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces of production, rather than consumption - they should be producing food, and fuel.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff...”
“If the individual is narrowly concentrated on the goal, to the exclusion of other relevant aspects of the problem situation, he is often unable to achieve a solution. The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.”
“The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.”
“Never say you're going back - SHOOT IT NOW!”
“I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: John Rhys Davies Talks War of Resistance, Indy 5 + Returning to The Hobbit?". Interview with David Sztypuljak, www.heyuguys.com. August 15, 2011.
“Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.”

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