"I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one."

-- Breyten Breytenbach

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Curious Quotes

“I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.”
“Good journalism is crucial. Good journalism isn't easy so I think it's less about what story and more about the layers and context that need to be explored in the story. That's one of the reasons why I'm excited to be a part of CNN. This is the kind of place that you can do that.”

Source : "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.
“People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Beauty is the child of love.”
“The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.”
“The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock, Herbert Francis Brett Brett-Smith (1921). “Four Ages of Poetry: Shelley's Defence of Poetry. Browning's Essay on Shelley. Edited by H.F.B. Brett-Smith”
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 25, 2016
“The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and growth or a planet of unbridgeable differences between peoples, wasted resources, corruption, and terror.”

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