"But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Wall Quotes #Army Quotes #Weight Quotes

“Sometimes you have to bend with the breeze or you break.”
“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.”
“The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.”
“You exist in the minds of other people.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.”
“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”

Source : Aesop (2009). “Aesop's Fables”, p.251, The Floating Press
“My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?”

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