"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

-- Herodotus

#Death Quotes #Suicide Quotes #Risk Quotes

“I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round ...”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
“If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.”
“For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - thats what I deeply loved.”
“Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.”

Source : "Microsoft exec calls open source a threat to innovation". www.cnet.com. February 7, 2002.
“Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a way that no other landmark ever could But Michael Kleen understands that these ghosts are more than just stories. As a folklorist and historian, Kleen shows readers the connection between our past and our present. Haunting Illinois is more than just a ghostly travel guide, itâ€™s an adventure offering new insight on the haunts you know, but also takes you on a trip to the spirits in your own backyard.”
“The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.”
“Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.”
“I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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