“In history, the arrival of a small man in a big hat is rarely good news.”
Andrew Marr (1959) British journalist
Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode VI, Revolution (28 October 2012)
“Good news travels slowly but arrives in the end, thank goodness. Bad news always arrives a day too soon.”
Steinar's wife
Paradísarheimt (Paradise Reclaimed) (1960)
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Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Pietà"
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Philip Kotler (1931) American marketing author, consultant and professor
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“I travel, always arriving in the same place.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
"Citizens of the City of Light," p. 27
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
Loreena McKennitt (1957) Canadian musician and composer
Celtic Women in Music interview (1999)
Context: There is a wonderful old Chinese proverb that I love, "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving". I think about my personal approach to musical projects much like a travel writer might approach the preparation for a book. You latch on to a certain theme or historical event and follow that into the unknown, while, at the same time, expanding on those themes.
“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Being Late http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21366/Being_Late <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
As quoted in "Tibet's Living Buddha" by Pico Iyer, p. 32.
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990)