"Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash."

-- Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Reading Quotes #Men Quotes #Voice Quotes

“The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.”
“Our fortunes rise together, and they fall together. 'All men are brothers,' said the Analects. We have a collective responsibility-to bring about a more stable and more prosperous world, a world in which every person in every country can reach their full potential.”
“I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.”
“Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.”
“One must see God in everyone.”
“The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.”
“Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

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