"I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross."

-- W. S. Merwin

#Going Away Quotes #Trying Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.”
“There's such a history, and to be here, and to feel that, is really amazing.”
“No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.”
“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.”
“The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world.”
“[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.”
“There’s something to be said for doing one thing right.”
“There are no more geniuses, only critics.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.203, Univ of California Press

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