"Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on!"

-- Nikolai Gogol

#Song Quotes #Horse Quotes #Home Quotes

“Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.16, Broadway Books
“Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.”
“I think it's impossible to get any movie made, let alone a character story. Even with big stars, which we had, there were challenges. But we got through it, and we're really happy that we made the movie. It's easier to make giant robot movies, but I'm not in that game.”
“I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit.”
“Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.”

Source : "College Poll: Religion, Morality Play Important Roles in Politics" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. April 14, 2006.
“Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.”
“I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.”

Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.
“I mean, money is a tool.”

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