"No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it."

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Source : WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (1858). “BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES”, p.588

William H. Prescott

#Hero Quotes #Heart Quotes #Dark Quotes

“I think that I still have it in my heart someday to paint a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening...like a light in the midst of the darkness.”
“I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.”
“I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That's always what motivated me was hope.”

Source : "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.
“Everything is an idea for something, something that touches the imagination, a fact that seems relevant or maybe just a statement I find interesting â€” either because it resonates or because I disagree. All of it is fodder for continued work or thinking on the topics. Itâ€™s also important to me to record the ideas that my instincts tell me are bad.”
“In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.”
“For example, Americans seem reluctant to take on Shakespeare because you don't think you're very good at it - which is rubbish. You're missing out here.”
“I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.”

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