"Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her--a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special--and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Special Quotes

“Itâ€™s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.”
“One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.”
“From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because its votaries have been content with mere unverified or unverifiable speculation (and this is the commonest case, because observation and experiment are hard work, while speculation is amusing); or it has been, because the accumulation of details of observation has for a time excluded speculation.”
“Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.... it is to assist Nature in moving the affections... the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature...”
“I don't really know what's going on with the Pornographers - everyone's kind of doing their own stuff. I mean, they play shows here or there.”

Source : "Interview: Jason Wade from Lifehouse". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. February 1, 2010.
“Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.”
“You do not have a problem except the one that is in your own mind, and you put it there!”
“That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.”

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