"[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap..."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Heart Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Leap Quotes

“I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less white and Western, which it is still at the moment. There will be more female artists in the mix. I think we'll see art forms explored through different media - the Internet, television, books, even. We'll see art produced in forms and media that we haven't seen yet.”
“I've always felt running is a form of meditation. Running enables us to stop our lives, to go out and find a safe place for ourselves.”
“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

Source : "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" y Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, (p. 496), 2007.
“I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.”
“Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.”
“To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit--investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.”
“Who wants to be married to a grandfather?”
“Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized, I aspire to luminous chaos. Loving the power of grammar and the fine distinctions of language, I seek the part of the mind I didn't know was there, the part 'sheer,' 'no-manfathomed,' 'cliffs of fall.”

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