"For me, I was in school and I pushed myself to be a good student, just because that's the type of person I was, but I never had a connection to any of it. I don't think my brain functioned in a way that was at its height, when I was in school. I needed something like art to really value the way my mind works. I wasn't reaching my full potential by sitting in a classroom and reading from a book. My mind didn't work that way."

-- Misty Copeland

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Reading Quotes

“His voice was like honey and velvet. "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognized the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb.”
“I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.”
“We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”

Source : Rosario Castellanos, Maureen Ahern (1988). “A Rosario Castellanos Reader”, p.258, University of Texas Press
“It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then?”
“Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.”
“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.”
“The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it. I'm afraid that all the queen's horses and all the queen's men cannot avail in this matter.”
“Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.”

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