"The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings."

-- Christopher Fry

#Life Quotes #Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes

“The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.”
“I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. That made me realize that maybe what I was writing was worth reading to people. After that, for some reason, I turned to novels and I've written mainly novels ever since.”
“You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”

Source : Tikkun magazine, July-August 1989.
“I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.”
“I don't control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.”
“It sounds funny, but the 2008 Olympics were something that just kind of happened, and I was lucky they came at a point when I was uninjured and well prepared. As a gymnast, you can't ask for much more.”
“When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off that you can catch trout, I mean really big trout, on a fly that a five-year old can tie in twenty seconds!”

Source : Ed Engle (1991). “Fly Fishing the Tailwaters”, p.34, Stackpole Books
“. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.”

Source : Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews (1982). “Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins”, Viking Adult

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