"And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Sky Quotes #World Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press
“I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of intimidating about that - where the first words they'll hear from me are when they call "action." There's something about actually going in and earning a part and going, like, "Okay, they really liked what I did, and so I'm on the right track."”
“Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...”
“I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious ad hoc magic.”
“During this time we've been apart, it's you I've thought of when I'm at my weakest, and you who have pulled me through.”
“My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.”

Source : "Republican Convention: Susana Martinez Admits Differences but Backs Romney" by Andrew O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes...”
“The more educated the people, the freer they are.”

Source : "'West has no idea what a dictatorship is' - Che Guevara's daughter to RT". RT Interview, www.rt.com. November 20, 2014.

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