"... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness."

-- Myrtle Reed

#Years Quotes #Bitterness Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.”
“What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?”
“Does he behave in rude or improper ways?" "He's a Bowman. We don't know any better.”
“I heard that I have three ribs, that I have more surgeries than Cher - whatever they say, they say; I know who I am.”
“A lot of young artists in particular think you can just do one great thing and then sit back and collect checks. Most artists, even people like Dan Clowes, who's one of my heroes, don't just do comics. He does paid illustration. He writes screenplays, and so forth, working and selling lots of different things.”
“From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.”
“Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen moments of focused joy.”
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.”

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