"The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic."

#Essence Quotes #Play Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.”
“If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.”
“If you dispute with me you will only quarrel with your bread and butter.”
“It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.”

Source : Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”
“In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country.”
“I cannot expect even my own art to provide all of the answers, only to hope it keeps asking the right questions.”
“American Hustle shows the FBI making real-life bribes to Washington politicians. I know, because as your U.S. senator, I turned them down.”
“Good big blokes are better than good little blokes. Then again, good little blokes are better than dud big blokes. And dud big blokes should play something other than Rugby”

You may also like:

Beverly Johnson
Model
Eddie Murphy
Stand-up comedian
Janice Dickinson
Model
Keshia Knight Pulliam
Actress
Lisa Bonet
Actress
Phylicia Rashad
Actress
Richard Pryor
Comedian
Tina Fey
Actress
William J. Clinton
42nd U.S. President