#God Quotes #Doe Quotes #Want Quotes
“We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.”
“The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.”
“We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake”
“My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.”
“Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.”
“At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.”
“Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.”
Source : Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr
“I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone.”
Gordon Getty Musical composer
Lenny Bruce Comedian
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet
William Wordsworth Poet
