"I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?"

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Source : Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.105, A&C Black

Robert Bolt

#Nice Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]”
“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”
“Ninety-nine and nine-tenths of the earthâ€™s volume must forever remain invisible and untouchable. Because more than 97 per cent of it is too hot to crystallize, its body is extremely weak. The crust, being so thin, must bend, if, over wide areas, it becomes loaded with glacial ice, ocean water or deposits of sand and mud. It must bend in the opposite sense if widely extended loads of such material be removed. This accounts for â€¦ the origin of chains of high mountains â€¦ and the rise of lava to the earthâ€™s surface.”
“Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.”
“The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day”
“I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.”
“The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It also set up evangelicals to be disappointed when the culture did not turn out the way many expected it to turn out. So our response ought to be that we are always, in every culture, strangers in exile.”

Source : Source: sojo.net
“I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.”

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