"It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down the rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--..."

-- Lewis Carroll

#Home Quotes #Wish Quotes #Growing Quotes

“I wanted to fight to get into the front. I was just hungry to do it.”
“The more men, generally speaking, will do for a Dollar when they make it, the more that Dollar will do for them when they spend it.”
“If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres; but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship, prayer, and the like, no one ever saw.”
“The mind can go either direction under stressâ€”toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
“Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.”

Source : Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
“I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.”
“Men automatically know from the moment she opens her mouth that if they want her, they'll have to get in line whith her standards and requirments, or keep it moving because she's done with the games and isn't interested in playing.”
“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”

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