"Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else."

-- George Plimpton

#Book Quotes #Cycling Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Your face is my heart”
“There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: Baz Luhrmann, director". Interview With Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2010.
“The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.”
“If You're Not Happy, You Can Become Happy. Happiness Is a Choice.”

Source : "Jennifer Aniston in September's Glamour: "If You're Not Happy, You Can Become Happy. Happiness Is a Choice."". Interview with Jason Sudeikis, www.glamour.com. July 29, 2013.
“Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.”
“I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.”
“If everything that exists was made by God and for God, and God is superior to the things made by Him, he who abandons what is superior and devotes Himself to what is inferior shows that he values things made by God more than God Himself.”

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