"I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Mean Quotes #Tired Quotes #Heart Quotes

“All work is the avoidance of harder work.”

Source : "2016 Poetry Month: An Interview With James Richardson". Interview with Jonathan Hobratsch, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2016.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin
“I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.”
“It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.”
“A kid asked me for advise about getting into entertainment? I said you better know how to be happy being broke!”
“I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it”
“You see, the richest people I know don't always understand what is going on. They don't always like what they see. But they have a quiet confidence that God will put all things together for their good.”
“Religion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.”

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