"Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!"

-- Irvin S. Cobb

#Eye Quotes #Kentucky Quotes

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”

Source : "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Book by Anne Bronte (under the pseudonym "Acton Bell"), Preface to the 2nd edition, July 22, 1848.
“The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2009.
“Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.”
“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
“It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.”

Source : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”
“It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.”

Source : "Sarah Shahi Talks Learning How to Play Sylvester Stallone’s Daughter, Fake Tattoos, and More on the Set of BULLET TO THE HEAD". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 24, 2013.
“Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.”

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