"sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces."

-- Corra May Harris

#People Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2010). “The Basque History of the World”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not gauged, ellipses not measured, velocities not ascertained, times not known. Nevertheless, the recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year.”
“Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.”
“Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.”
“Failures not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.”
“To dance, above all, is to enter into the motions of life. It is an action, a movement, a process. The dance of life is not so much a metaphor as a fact; to dance is to know oneself alone and to celebrate it.”
“If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.”

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