"I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit."

-- Michael Leunig

#Art Quotes #Children Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.”
“The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.”

Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”
“There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.”
“The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”
“The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.”

Source : Letter to President Harry S. Truman, www.imdb.com. April 11, 1951.
“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”
“My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.”

Source : "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

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