"Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.""

-- Paulo Coelho

#Country Quotes #Wall Quotes #Mean Quotes

“People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.”
“I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.”
“They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too.”
“We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.”
“I'll co-host TODAY from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.”

Source : "Lester Holt: Fulfilling a promise to Class of 2010" by Steve Veres, www.today.com. May 15, 2010.
“Personal finances are like peopleâ€™s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.”
“I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in the world today.”

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