"Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over."

-- Eric Clapton

#Risk Quotes #Trying Quotes #Powerless Quotes

“I discovered Twitter, as I remember, and the idea of watching a global conversation go by immediately struck me as a fantastic thing. So I suppose it's not TwitterVision per se that excited me, but Twitter itself and its implications.”

Source : Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com
“Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”

Source : Preface (written 1918)
“How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.”
“After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.”
“Each day has a color, a smell.”

Source : "Fictional character: Tilo". "The Mistress of Spices", 2005.
“From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.”
“I hate the way chorus boxes sound”
“If I make a painting, it should be seen for what it's set out to do too. A lot of the things that I do, it's not all art. Some of it's design, some of it's illustration, some of it's graphics, some of it's concept, some of it's business and some of it, hopefully, is art.”

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