My mom is a sculptress.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try

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The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

Jane Austen

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time. When Surrounded By 8 Enemy Divisions During WW2

Chesty Puller

I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.

Rush Limbaugh

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.

Leila Sales

I have no conscience, none, but I would not like to bring a soul into this world. When it sinned and when it suffered something like a dead hand would fall on me, -- You did it, you, for your own pleasure you created this thing! See your work! If it lived to be eighty it would always hang like a millstone round my neck, have the right to demand good from me, and curse me for its sorrow. A parent is only like to God: if his work turns out bad so much the worse for him; he dare not wash his hands of it. Time and years can never bring the day when you can say to your child, Soul, what have I to do with you?

Olive Schreiner

I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people.

Steven Soderbergh

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

Ludwig van Beethoven

When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

Ian Mcewan