Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse."
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Pouring
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William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"Pouring out liquor is like burning books."
Andrei Tarkovsky
Film Director, Screenwriter
"The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him."
Clarence Jordan
Theologian
"Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'"
Jeff Buckley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals."
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"Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe."
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"Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you. Therein lies your eternity."
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"Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment."
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"The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air."
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"Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you."
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"Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere."
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"We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time."
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"It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep."
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