"Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Heart Quotes #Mediocrity Quotes #Break Quotes

“'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche.”

Source : "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.
“Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.”
“Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.”
“Always choose attitude over experience. Always.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 03, 2016
“What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.”
“It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.”
“We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.”

Source : Maria Irene Fornes (1987). “Promenade and Other Plays”, Paj Publication

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