#ant

I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#been #contaminated #culture #europe #european

Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they’re capable of so much less. ↗

— Amethyst Marie

#epiphany #fantasy #realization #imagination

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#because #become #cannot #changing #climate

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#back #embrace #even #feel #having

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#epic #even #good #good stories #huge

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#attains #bliss #constantly #him #his

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth. ↗

— Guru Nanak

#cannot #comes #even #forth #happen

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film. ↗

— Jack Nance

#could #few #film #genius #had

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#actually #allows #always #artist #because

Looking can make you want. Wanting can get you thinking. If you want them to stop thinking, just give them what they want. ↗

— R.S. Vern

#ebook #haee #humor #middle-grade-fantasy #middling