"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

-- Mary McCarthy

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Literature Quotes

“I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward.”
“But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.”
“When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.”
“Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.”

Source : Vicki Baum, Margaret Leland Goldsmith (1931). “Results of an Accident”
“Do we call the star lost that is hidden / In the great light of morn?”

Source : Phoebe Cary (1873). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.235
“Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.”
“Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.”
“The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.”

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