"This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony."

-- Kavita Ramdas

#Alchemist Quotes #Singing Quotes #Investing Quotes

“I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.”
“Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.”

Source : "The Middle Ages of reason" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.
“You cannot endure what you never enjoy!”
“A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.”
“You write by sitting down and writing. Â There's no particular time or placeâ€”you suit yourself, your nature. Â How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.”
“The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.”
“Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence.Â If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell.”
“Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that.”

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