"What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure."

-- Sherwood Anderson

#Sweet Quotes #Feet Quotes #Air Quotes

“If it is necessary we will find a quick answer and it will not be the way the United States expects it. It will be an answer that devalues the 'Star Wars' program.”

Source : UPI (Moscow) press release on Soviet reaction to the Strategic Defense Initiative, "Daily Record" Newspaper, August 1986.
“Some days, a killing spree seems like a good idea.”
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need a great script.”

Source : "Screenwriter John Patrick Shanley on 'Ups and Downs,' Taking Moonstruck to Broadway and the Plays That Inspired Him". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“Hence the vogue for double majors. It isnâ€™t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the worldâ€™s systems) to allow you to do.”

Source : William Deresiewicz (2015). “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.”
“Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.”
“I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me”

Source : Julian Clary (2011). “A Young Man's Passage”, p.176, Random House

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