"It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great."

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Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.48, Vanderbilt University Press

Rebecca Harding Davis

#Men Quotes #Great Day Quotes #World Quotes

“The next time you get scared, get sacred!”
“The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.”
“The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged in the subordinate departments of trade and the law. And the harm thus considerable in amount must be necessarily more than considerable in degree. For it invariably happens, that when persons in these walks become materialists, they become turbulent subjects and bad men.”

Source : "The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness".
“You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.”
“The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening.”
“Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings ...”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.353, Atlantic Monthly Press
“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”
“The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.”

Source : "Thank goodness it's a jungle out there" by Kathryn Flett, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2006.

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