"The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight."

-- Stephen R. Lawhead

#Children Quotes #Sight Quotes #Astonishment Quotes

“We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.”
“There's always only been three of us [drummer Joey Shuffield, vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Tony Scalzo and myself], but when we first started we didn't have anybody augmenting the band, so everything had to be kinda to the point anyway. We did that record and toured a while on that, but I just got sick of playing it every night. It felt like doing push-ups to me.”
“Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I have found in my own experience that it is of no small benefit, when you lie in bed in the dark, to recall in imagination, one after another, the outlines of the form you have been studying." He often awoke to find his problems solved. Da Vinci would often stand silent and motionless before a painting for hours, without using his brush, as though waiting for spiritual guidance.”
“Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”
“I want to teach my daughter the importance of exercising and eating healthy as she grows up.”

Source : "Ellen Pompeo: No Junk Food for Stella!" by Paul Chi, celebritybabies.people.com. May 6, 2010.
“The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.”
“[In hockey] I was a goon, just protecting the better players. I've always been a better baseball player.”
“Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.”

Source : "The Last Oasis of Free and Independent Music" by Nellie McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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