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“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.”
Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
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“There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.10, Harvard University Press
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“If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.”
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“The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.”
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“Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.”
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“Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”
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“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”
Source : "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011. 
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“Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.”
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“To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.”
