"If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire."

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Source : Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Thomas Colchie, Mark Strand (1986). “Travelling in the Family: Selected Poems”, New York : Random House

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

#Blue Quotes #Desire Quotes #Afternoon Quotes

“I wanted to be a painter, really, when I was growing up as a kid. It was one thing that really took a grip on me.”
“Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.”
“It turns out your conscious mind â€” the part you think of as you â€” is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.”

Source : "Stray Questions for: David Eagleman". Interview with Blake Wilson, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. July 10, 2009.
“The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.”
“The theoretical side of physical chemistry is and will probably remain the dominant one; it is by this peculiarity that it has exerted such a great influence upon the neighboring sciences, pure and applied, and on this ground physical chemistry may be regarded as an excellent school of exact reasoning for all students of the natural sciences.”

Source : Svante Arrhenius (1912). “Theories of Solutions”
“Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged.”
“As long as we think we are not that bad, the idea of grace will never change us.”
“I really admire actors who have time, because time is really the greatest luxury for an actor to live with a character, to develop a walk and a talk, or to listen to tape if you're playing a real character. But without time you're really just forced to make quick choices and move on and hope that the spaghetti sticks against the wall.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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