"Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown."

-- John Keats

#Night Quotes #Voice Quotes #Bird Quotes

“I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”
“Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page.”
“I did my own thinking. I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.”

Source : "Sir William Mulock Reviews the Past". The Newmarket Era, pp. 1-2, news.ourontario.ca. April 06, 1934.
“Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.â€™ ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.”
“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”
“Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than the one used by Lord Kelvin: Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water, then pour the contents of the glass into the ocean and stir the latter thoroughly so as to distribute the marked molecules uniformly throughout the seven seas; if you then took a glass of water anywhere out of the ocean, you would find in it about a hundred of your marked molecules.”
“I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make”

Source : Song: Won’t You Come Over, Album: Mala, 2013

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