"You explain how it went, and as far as you can figure out how it got that way."

-- Virgil Thomson

#Way Quotes #Figures Quotes

“Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.”
“Iâ€™m at the stage in life where I get a lot of pleasure out of finding a cheap stock,”
“Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.”
“Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.”
“I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.”
“I remember one time I tried to pity this fool. He told me his name was Jeff. He was married. He pulled out his wallet and showed me three pictures of his kids; Kelly, Robert, Brittany. Real cute kids. Don't get too close man. It's hard to pity a fool if you get too close.”

Source : "'I pity the fool': Mr T on jury duty" by Cheryl V. Jackson, www.pressreader.com. April 28, 2009.
“Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to affirm the divine depth of mystery and holiness in the living and eternal God, but it opens us at the deepest level of our being to an act which unites us most realistically with our fellow people.”
“Color is like food for the spirit - plus it's not addictive or fattening.”

Source : FaceBook post by Isaac Mizrahi from Jun 13, 2011

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