"Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease...."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Fall Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.”
“I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.”
“Your definition of who you are is your prison. You can set yourself free at any time.”
“I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering.”
“The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.”
“You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.”

Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”
“Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!”
“The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.”

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