#Letting Go Quotes #Judging Quotes #Humanity Quotes
“The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions, and thus the cry in the poem may come to sound louder, more urgent, more real than the cry in the street outside. The death in the novel may move us more potently than the death in the next room. Thus there may be a covert, betraying link between the cultivation of aesthetic response and the potential of personal inhumanity.”
“A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.”
“Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.”
Source : Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2013). “Wonders of Life”, p.16, HarperCollins UK
“[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.”
“I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.”
“Some wedges are great but you can look like your feet are encased in cement.”
“There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and ***** our hats.”
“Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.”
Gordon Getty Musical composer
Lenny Bruce Comedian
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet
William Wordsworth Poet
