"I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump out into your future. That kind of action is more like a direction. It's that same thinking that brought me to New York."

“Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.”

“Lack of proper endgame technique allows many players to escape from lost positions, even without any spectacular play on their part.”

Source : Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”

“He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.”

“... blueprints are like pets and children -- difficult to appreciate or understand unless they're yours.”

“The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd.”

“Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.”

Source : Robert M. La Follette, Sr.'s speech in Evansville, Indiana (July 7, 1906), as quoted in Michael Wolraich "Unreasonable Men: Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics", July 22, 2014.

“All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one,”

Source : "'Real L Word' Women Unhappy With Elisabeth Hasselbeck's Lesbian Comment", www.aceshowbiz.com. July 30, 2010.