"In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land."

-- John Milton

#Land Quotes #Share Quotes #Vain Quotes

“time is as adhesive as love, and the more time you spend with someone the greater the likelihood of finding yourself with a permanent sort of thing to deal with that people casually refer to as 'friendship,' as if that were the end of the matter.”

Source : Deborah Eisenberg (2011). “Under the 82nd Airborne: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan
“If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 31, 2009.
“Besides Scream, I liked The Purge. It stuck with me because it reminds me of boxing - you have 45 minutes to punch someone legally without consequence.”
“Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."”
“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time...”
“You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.”
“A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.”
“When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.”

Source : Russell Baker, William Knowlton Zinsser (1998). “Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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