"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."

-- William Manchester

#Navy Quotes #Pearls Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Lotta people don't realize when you grow up with people, you have an affinity, a relationship you don't get with anyone else. After you're twenty years old, anyone you meet after that, it's different from the people you knew before.”
“It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.144, Cambridge University Press
“Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.”
“I make work that tries to sort of connect with something really, really familiar. I don't try to make work that's original. I try to make work that's quintessential. That's what I mean about the familiar. It operates with stuff that people already know or information that they already have and I try to just use that. Quintessential means like the perfect minimalist sculptor.”
“Your dreams will always be more important to you than anyone else, you can want something as much as you want but at the end of the day your mum doesn't care if your arms are 24 inches or not, but that doesn't mean you give up, chase your dreams.”
“I must personally say that I do question the sincerity and nonviolent intentions of some civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mr. James Farmer, and others, who are known to have left-wing associations.”
“I am seventeen. The good things about seventeen is that youâ€™re not sixteen. Sixteen goes with the word sweet, and I am so far from sweet.”
“Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.”

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