"Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme."

-- Derek Jarman

#Blue Quotes #Rose Quotes #Wavelength Quotes

“Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Every cricketer knows that in the early stages of a batsman's innings i.e. before he gets his eye in - luck plays an important part.”
“It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.”
“Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You donâ€™t fall in love; you get trampled by it.”

Source : Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.210, Kensington Books
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”
“... for no change comes calmly over the world...”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.
“I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.”
“It's difficult to define catharsis. But I think that only those who acknowledge and respond to unseen worlds and energies can harness the power of those sources. The catharsis I experienced with my whole body during gut is reflected in my work.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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