"In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss."

-- Salman Rushdie

#History Quotes #World Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.”
“I didn't want to become this stiffened - and that was just a personal choice, at that time. And, the idea was also to go to film first, get enough notoriety in film that I could interpret some of the opera stuff the way I would want to interpret it.”
“There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.”
“But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.”
“I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.”
“On the key to a successful Twitter account: Write the things that you think are funny and that's what's gonna click with people.”
“Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.”
“The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.”

Source : Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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