"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."

-- George Bernard Shaw

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Names Quotes

“Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.”
“I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.”
“And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20
“I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.”
“When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.”
“When I am there [Tibet], I am very happy. The Tibetans radiate. They literally send out light. His holiness [the Dalai Lama] generates love and compassion to every human being. He has committed himself to that. I haven't made that leap yet. I haven't given up self-aspiration. I still love making movies.”
“The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was enacted in 1865 by martial law. The Fourteenth Amendment was enacted in 1868 by martial law. The Fifteenth Amendment was enacted in 1870 by martial law. Military occupation of the Southern states did not end until 1877, twelve years after the end of the Civil War.”
“The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.”

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