"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness."

-- John Keats

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“If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?”
“I will use a form of punctuation of my own, which will be something like this - when one is beginning he takes a long breath, for this use a capital. When he stops for breath, a comma, and when it is all gone, a period. Don't know the use of a semi-colon, but expect it is when one thinks he is out of breath and isn't.”

Source : Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”

Source : Hanan al-Shaykh (2013). “Beirut Blues”, p.366, Anchor
“Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just think Barack [Obama], he doesn't dig being asked at all. He's got a bit of an imperious nature about him. I guess nobody has told him that nobody reads newspapers anymore. That is a dying art form.”
“When people ask me what really changed my life, I tell them that absolutely the most important thing was changing what I demanded on myself.”
“I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound.”
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

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