"There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action."

-- John Henrik Clarke

#Long Quotes #Silence Quotes #Action Quotes

“Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.”
“In 2011 I stopped playing rugby for England so during the Six Nations, which is on during February and March, I was able to grab a week's skiing. But I still had to take it pretty easy because I didn't want to get injured while I was playing for Gloucester. In 2013, when I retired fully from rugby, I finally had the chance to go a couple of times a season.”
“Tom Reganâ€™s now classicÂ Case for Animal RightsÂ blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.”
“With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.”
“If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.55
“Perhaps the greatest challenge has been trying to keep my time to myself and my private life private in order to do my job. Everything that is most mine belongs to everyone now.”
“We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.”
“You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.”

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