"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

-- Henry Miller

#Hero Quotes #Men Quotes #Differences Quotes

“But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.”
“You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.”
“Well yet, this life such as it is, yet we love it, and loath we are to end it; and if it be in hazard by the law, what running, riding, posting, suing, bribing, and if all will not serve, what breaking prison is there for it!”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (1843). “Works: Ninety-six sermons”, p.51
“I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language.”
“Chicken's good. I like chicken.”
“Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.”
“What is the problem? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.”
“In every painting, as in any other work of art, there is always an IDEA, never a STORY. The idea is the point of departure, the first cause of the plastic construction, and it is always present all the time as energy creating matter. The stories and other literary associations exist only in the mind of the spectator, the painting acting as the stimulus.”

Source : José Clemente Orozco (1983). “Textos de Orozco: Estudio y Apéndice”

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