#iona

In a world where education is predominantly verbal, highly educated people find it all but impossible to pay serious attention to anything but words and notions. There is always money for, there are always doctrines in, the learned foolery of research into what, for scholars, is the all-important problem: Who influenced whom to say what when? Even in this age of technology the verbal humanities are honoured. The non-verbal humanities, the arts of being directly aware of the given facts of our existence, are almost completely ignored. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#age

We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage. ↗

— Arthur Hiller

#back #boston #brought #budget #corners

take what you can from your dreams Make them real as anything It takes the work out of the courage ↗

— Dave Matthews Band

#courage

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#characters #exist #fictional #get #head

You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#chair #could #emotional #felt #first

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#motivational #attitude

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddamit, I'm a billionaire. ↗

— Howard Hughes

#deranged #i #millionaire #paranoid

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#forgiveness

An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written. ↗

— M.J. Stoddard

#m-j-stoddard-quotes #dreams

The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed. ↗

— Lamar Hunt

#been #best #between #competition #designed