"Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself."

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Source : "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

Jay Griffiths

#People Quotes #Excess Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...”

Source : Chris Bohjalian (2010). “Secrets of Eden”, p.36, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.”
“The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.”
“Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake”
“Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.”
“A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.”
“Being smart in the arts is the same as being smart in engineering is the same as being smart in writing is the same as being smart in anything, really. It's the ability to manipulate all the pieces of the puzzle in your mind, try to fit them together, and when they don't fit quite right... you sand the edges/corners and make them all fit.”
“O Word of God incarnate . . . It is the golden casket Where gems of truth are stored; It is the heaven-drawn picture Of Thee, the Living Word.”

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