"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Education Quotes #World Quotes #Closets Quotes

“For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.”
“I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.”
“You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?”
“A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.”
“I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.”

Source : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.
“I've got an L3 bulging disk and degenerating disk. It's bulging in two places. Yeah, it's not good.”
“I am all for art's finding a large audience. But the way that's happening now, with big works filling big galleries and bigger shows, is mostly stopping statements from being made. Or heard. Or talked about. Or really examined. It's watering things down.”
“I think I was a mermaid and I used to swim the shores or Hawaii and used to pop up and see coconuts and pineapples everywhere.”

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