"An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic."

“I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.”

“What makes autocorrect really interesting for a lexicographer is we read in a very weird way. A lot of times we'll catch things that are so clearly autocorrect typos, and you learn to tell the difference between an honest-to-goodness, ham-fisted typo and an autocorrect typo because the latter will not necessarily be a difference of one letter apart on the keyboard, which is usually what typos are, or it won't be the wrong its or the wrong there.”

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“If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You have to believe in yourself. And you have to, down deep within the bottom of your soul, feel that you can do the job that you've set out to do.”

“Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.”

Source : Willie Sutton, Edward Linn (2004). “Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber”, p.136, Broadway Books

“For me, being memorable is more important than winning.”

“Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.”

“Heroes are made in the hour of defeat”