"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right." "I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart." - Rosa Parks, born today in 1913 (as Hertford's College Chaplain reminded us.

“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (1/3)

“Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

—NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, Cormac McCarthy

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“It is remarkable how many functions one brush can perform. Use not too many, but use enough.”

—Robert Henri

Jean Cocteau, THE ART OF CINEMA

“The truth concerning the passions, verisimilitude in the feelings, experienced in the given circumstances, that is what our intelligence demands of the dramatist.”

—Alexander Pushkin

“There isn’t ‘realism’ on the one hand, and on the other hand (in contrast, in contradiction) ‘dreams.’ We spend a third of our life asleep (and thus dreaming): What is there that is more real than dreams?”

—Andrei Tarkovsky

“There‘s nothing more beautiful than mystery. I think you make people unhappy by solving all the mysteries. A mystery solved, you forget it and move on to the next one.” (1/2)

“My friend Bushnell Keeler, who was really responsible for me wanting to be a painter, said you need four hours of uninterrupted time to get one hour of good painting in, and that is really true. So I have a place to paint and I love being there, but I do get a lot of interruptions.”

—David Lynch

“A thing is what it is, and that’s what it wants to be.”

—David Lynch

“On Air”