Quotes of the day, March 7

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

• Beautiful
• Ugly
• Self-ignorance

He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

Elizabeth Gaskell

• Face
• Swallow
• Olive

'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

Ethan Canin

• Life
• Question
• Turn Out

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

Whitney Houston

• Believe
• Long
• Shadow

To me, the big difference is when you yell cut and then you have to walk over there and deliver a note, it gives it much more import as opposed to "Hey, try that." It's just much more intimate, I think.

Will Gluck

• Thinking
• Giving
• Cutting

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Haruki Murakami

• Love
• Hungry
• Fill