Blocul Carlton Quotes

#1. Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese

#2. I left the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin in 2004, and I did five years of theater after that.

Aidan Turner

#3. May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

Ashoka

#4. Engraving then, is, in brief terms, the Art of Scratch.

John Ruskin

#5. Jay [Duplass] and I normally just sit around and people watch, and we talk about things that are happening in our lives, or with people that we've met. That's the soup from which our movies usually come from.

Mark Duplass

#6. Nobody has ever been hurt by the actions of ships I have been on.

Paul Watson

#7. I added, my voice dropping to the husky growl that made his pupils dilate just ... like ... that.

Amelia C. Gormley

#8. Tonglen means "taking in and sending out". This meditation practice is designed to help ordinary people like ourselves connect with the openness and softness of our hearts. Instead of shielding and protecting our soft spot, with tonglen we could let ourselves feel what it is to be human.

Pema Chodron

#9. The consciousness in each man is a sliding scale, which identifies him now with the First Cause, and now with the flesh of his body; life above life, in infinite degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I had met Keanu [Reeves]a few times so it was a great way to reach out to him with an actual job offer. He very kindly agreed to be part of it and it was an amazing experience.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#11. This case is complex. It's got layers to it, Davey. It's a fucking onion ... You're a natural-born onion peeler
the best that ever was.

John Verdon

#12. Philosophy is regarded by many as inseparable from speculation ... Philosophy has proceeded from speculation to science.

Hans Reichenbach

#13. I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ.

Gerard Majella

#14. George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House.

Jeff Greenfield