Bamiyan Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

We are beginning to learn that intangibles have more specific gravity than we suspected, that ideas can generate as much forward thrust as Atlas missiles. We may win a victory in exploring the infinities of outer space, but it will be a Pyrrhic victory unless we can also explore the infinities of our inner spirit. We have supersensitive thermographs to show us the slightest variations in skin temperature. No devices can teach us the irrelevance of skin color. WE can transplant a heart from one person to another in a brilliant feat of surgical virtuosity. Now we are ready to try it the hard way: transplanting understanding, compassion, and love from one person to another. — Lloyd Alexander

When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios. — Henry David Thoreau

Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just play the kid. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb? ... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body? — Saint Augustine

The story is the way the story is told. Adam's — Ursula K. Le Guin

The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness. — Lauryn Hill