"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Real Quotes #Self Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.34
“If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live”
“The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International
“I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.”
“To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.”
“We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.”
“If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.”

Source : Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.2, Routledge

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