#ding

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#corresponding #energy #muscular #spiritual #sunlight

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#body #culture #form #greenland #people

There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#beautiful #been #close #darkest #even

I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. ↗

— Michelle Dockery

#austen #because #characters #dickens #effectively

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#does #eyes #ignorance #mislead #mortals

Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#fine #get #metaphors #sometimes #understanding

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ↗

— Clarence Day

#reading #thinking #well #writing

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#clothing #feeding #mercy #must #our

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #reading #words #literature

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#literature #reading #literature