"It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]"

-- Paul Newman

#Beautiful Quotes #Sorry Quotes #Tired Quotes

“Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.”

Source : Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.446, Simon and Schuster
“I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.”
“The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.”
“A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.”
“A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
“So many rings, my fingers starting to hizzurt. If you didnt know me you did swear I had that wizzork.. and I am from Pittsburgh.”
“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
“The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.”

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