"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."

-- Martin Lewis Perl

#Interesting Quotes #Parent Quotes #Language Quotes

“I know many people have said it before, but there is nothing a cup of coffee and a new pair of shoes can't fix!”
“Knight without fear and without reproach.”
“The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.”
“It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.”
“What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.”

Source : Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Now and again I feel the astonishment of being alive like this, in this body.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company
“It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.”
“Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.”

Source : Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.104, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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