"How torturous is the "churchly" language one must speak in church - the tone, style, habit. It is all artificial; there is a total absence of a simple human language. With what a sigh of relief one leaves this world of cassocks, and kissing and church gossip. As soon as one leaves, one sees: wet bare branches, fog which floats over fields, trees, homes. Sky. Early dusk. And it all tells an incredibly simple truth."

-- Alexander Schmemann

#Home Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Simple Quotes

“I am terribly fascinated with things that I donâ€™t understand.”

Source : "Richard Saul Wurman: 'My World Is a Lattice'". Interview with Emma Robertson, the-talks.com. October 22, 2014.
“The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.”
“The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late.”
“I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful.”
“Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
“Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.”

Source : ROBERT ARDREY (1966). “THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE”
“I remember I went to an exhibition somewhere and one of the artists, an Iranian lady, said, "I wish we had somewhere that our paintings would stay forever." So this idea came to me. I said, "She's right, we should have a place to keep them, and not only Iranian art works, but also of foreign artists."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.”

Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.272

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