"Public â€˜career feministsâ€™ have been more concerned with getting more women into â€˜boardrooms,â€™ when the problem is that there are altogether too many boardrooms, and none of them are on fire,"

-- Laurie Penny

#Fire Quotes #Careers Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little.”
“Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an inspiration!" I've never quite checked up on the dates to see whether or if, in fact, we did our film before he did his.”
“We know that dreams fuel innovation.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 12, 2017
“Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher.”

Source : Virginia Cary Hudson (1964). “O Ye Jigs & Juleps”
“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.”
“You cannot play the piano by telling a pianist what to do, go a little more to the left or to the right. And the same is for the computer, really. You have to play yourself to get the most out of it.”
“Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.”
“Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.”

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