"The study of music was a family interest."

-- Emanuel Celler

#Study Quotes #Interest Quotes

“Winning leaders are almost always motivated when the chips are down.”
“If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.”
“In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p 34, 1957.
“But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.”

Source : Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.37
“When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.”
“I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet”
“The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.”
“The past is always a rebuke to the present.”

Source : Robert Penn Warren, Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers (1980). “Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978”, Random House (NY)

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