"Consider the stars. Among them are no passions, no wars. They know neither love nor hatred. Did man but emulate the stars, would not his soul become clear and radiant as they are? But man's spirit draws him like a moth to the ephemera of this world, and in their heat he is consumed entire."

-- Sarah Monette

#Stars Quotes #War Quotes #Passion Quotes

“That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.”
“Girl trouble, for me, is when you fall in love.”

Source : "Reports of Madonna celebration were wrong" by Jeannette Walls, www.today.com. January 6, 2005.
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
“The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.”

Source : Bal Gangadhar Tilak (2011). “The Arctic Home in the Vedas”, p.21, Arktos
“I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this chance to have a job pass me by. I went out and learned and I stayed one step ahead of the students by reading and I got to be pretty proficient at throwing on the wheel and making my own glazes, ordering the chemicals and having the students go out and dig and process their clay, and doing things that they weren't teaching at Howard University. So Talladega College opened up my whole sensibility about experimental teaching.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art.”
“Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?”
“I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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