"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#Life Quotes #Positive Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.”
“As a writer I feel more like a filter than a performer. I absorb and observe and then I name scatterings of stars into constellations. I don't usually spend time asking whether the stars are random or planned. I make a narrative in the darkness, the area subscribed by an outline of bright points. Sometimes they look like Ursa Minor, and sometimes they just looks like one day the world exploded.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.”
“I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.”
“Some things just couldn't be protected from the storm. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once the old things were broken off, amazingly beautiful things grow in their place.”
“Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.”
“See karma, make dharma”
“I think I'm a really tough player.”

Source : US Open Press conference, www.tennis-x.com. September 6, 2010.

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