"What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight."

-- Alexey Leonov

#Stars Quotes #Moving Quotes #Heart Quotes

“We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.”
“It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.”

Source : "Peter Doig: the art of the foreign". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.
“I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.”

Source : Bill Barich (2015). “Traveling Light: A Year of Wandering, from California to England and Tuscany and Back Again”, p.188, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“I love the short-haired lifestyle.”
“You must be prepared and know the reason why you dance.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.179, University of Oklahoma Press
“When the curtain falls no one is ready”
“A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.”

Source : "A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto". Interview with Richard N. Haass, www.cfr.org. August 15, 2007.
“Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.”

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