What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.
The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.
What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.
My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.
We won’t ever see another one like Paul Scholes. He is a legend and a real benchmark. He is not interested in the modern-day footballer’s life off the pitch, but he is a world-class player on it