"The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor."

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Edmund Spenser

#Greatness Quotes #Mind Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Actually, I think I'm part of the last generation to grow up believing in magic and fairies and believing I had powers - you know, lying on the ground and trying to have my spirit leave my body - which never happened; still working on that bit.”
“My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.”
“One by one, I could find a house that somebody had restored properly, and then another one, and now it's like a virus. Everybody in Palm Springs wants to do it.”
“For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.”
“Love cannot live where there is no trust.”

Source : Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”
“Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.”
“When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.”
“I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.”

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