Vnukovo Village Quotes

#1. The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

Steven Pressfield

#2. You cannot shy away from yourself. Look the world in the eye, and it can do nothing to hurt you.

Claire Legrand

#3. There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

Bryan Stevenson

#4. Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

Spalding Gray

#5. When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.

Patanjali

#6. Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Laini Taylor

#7. To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

Terry Tempest Williams

#8. Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

Clint Eastwood

#9. Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems to me the main thing you learn from failure is that it's entirely possible you will have another failure.

Nora Ephron

#10. Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

Tony Abbott

#11. I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.

Claire Danes

#12. One of the problems, it seems to me, is that we have got it into our heads that books should be hard work, and that unless they're hard work, they're not doing us any good.

Nick Hornby

#13. Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.

Michael Sweet

#14. Joe, my guardian and a man of few words, once said about Lizzie, "That girl could talk the ears off a cornfield.

Sharon Creech

#15. There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.

W. H. Auden