"Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America."

-- Simon Winchester

#Ocean Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Land Quotes

“The image itself is kind of the least important factor to me, though I'm still interested in putting forth an interesting image. I see the image as the screen laid over top of what really interests me, which is that depth of surface and that filmic quality that it has when you pass the piece. The idea that my pieces look like paintings, but are most definitely not, is really interesting to me.”
“Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.”
“Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.”

Source : Charles Wheelan (2012). “10 1⁄2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said”, p.112, W. W. Norton & Company
“Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't - like blowing a guy's head off with a shotgun.”
“I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.”
“Don't give up before the miracle happens.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.1145, Random House
“Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.”
“I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.”

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