"Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!"

-- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

#Hair Quotes #Flames Quotes #White Quotes

“My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.”
“I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.”
“Entertainment is not politically neutral.”

Source : John Lahr (1982). “Coward, the Playwright”, p.103, Univ of California Press
“someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.”

Source : Jan Burke (2002). “Sweet Dreams, Irene: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
“I think a lot of people underestimate the physical demands required to be a top model. It's not just what you're doing on set, it's the strength you have to have to survive in a cutthroat industry. It's the quick wit and the quick thinking on your feet in certain situations.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.”
“Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.”

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