"I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of."

-- George Eliot

#Thinking Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Experience Quotes

“When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.”
“Seeing and playing with physical objects can enable access to symbolic ideas. When I studied physics and math at university it was all done through equations and textbooks whereas artists go to art school and start making stuff; they fling paint at the walls, they dance and bash things together with giant bits of metal. Our society has come to think of science as being a very abstractified thing, and art as being a materialized thing.”
“You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.”
“The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.”
“For notwithstanding this rest and cessation from labor which is required on the Lord's day, yet three sorts of works may and ought to be performed. . . . these are works of piety, works of necessity, and works of charity.”

Source : Ezekiel Hopkins (19??). “Exposition of the Commandments”
“I havent lost my culture, just my accent.”
“Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.”
“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

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