"I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with."

-- Norman Granz

#Thinking Quotes #United States Quotes #States Quotes

“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”

Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan
“Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand her better. She has a violent nostalgia, almost an infantile nostalgia, to be understood by the men surrounding her. I like her relentless fight for independence, her rebellion against the mediocre, and her quest for the sublime, even if she burns her wigs in the process. I like that Flaubert never judges her morally for her self-destructiveness, for her desperate attempt to satisfy her wildest desires and appetites.”
“Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.”
“The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.”
“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”
“If you can't do great things, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway.”
“I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.”
“Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.”

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