"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."

-- John Cleese

#Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.”
“The Backstreet Boys....they really do have good music!”
“We've tried to use some visual motifs [in Beauty and the Beast]. As far as the cinematography and the lensing and all that, we are presenting a different view into that world. It's a little sleeker, but we're keeping the gothic feel underneath it.”
“We have misunderstood our confusion when we think there is an answer to it. The confusion is not a result of questions that are too hard, but rather a questioner who is disintegrating. Confusion is the introduction to true intelligence.”
“Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”
“The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.”

Source : 1887 'Brise marine', in Poe sies, Du Parnasse Contemporain (1893).
“All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.”

Source : Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.14, Soho Press
“Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path.”

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