"A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger."

--

Louise Rennison

#Blind Quotes #Badgers Quotes

“I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.”

Source : Interview with Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.
“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”
“A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.”
“You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.”
“I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.”

Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.214, A&C Black
“Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.”
“Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.”

Source : Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”
“Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated.”

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