"The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship."

-- Peter Gizzi

#Important Quotes #Done Quotes #Research Quotes

“We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 9, 2016
“His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.”
“We should probably start searching around a little earlier in our lives for what I call parallel activities, because most of us get entrenched in our careers. And, of necessity, we're earning a living, and it's taking our time, and we're building our rÃ©sumÃ©, and we want our rÃ©sumÃ© generally to be our proficiency within our field, because chances are we're going to be applying for another position within the field. So we tend to put off a lot of this sort of what I call parallel discovery until we're either very successful and have the time to do that, or more often until we're retired.”
“Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!”
“Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.”
“Without the ice, the earth will fall”
“When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I'm so happy I did a nice thing.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 21, 2008.
“In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.”

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