#Ambitious Quotes
“I remember going for the first time to a place called The Roxy in New York because you can see people breakdancing there. That's the only reason I went! It's amazing, kids are still doing that.”
“For the moment, I'm concentrating on my own stuff.”
“...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.”
“I heard Tom Waits in this kinky shop on Belmont Street in Chicago. Considering the way I was raised, they were such obscure voices, but their music saved my life - I didn't know who I was before I heard Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.”
“I confess, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight.”
“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”
“Love is proved in the letting go.”
Source : Cecil Day Lewis (1992). “The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis”, p.14, Stanford University Press
“I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent.”