"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."

-- Robert Quine

#New York Quotes #August Quotes #People Quotes

“[Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties every night, never studied anything, never took a note, didn't care about anything and just had a blast. So they said, "We gotta let you go. You get zeros all the time." Today it wouldn't even matter, because they don't care if you can read.”
“Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.”

Source : "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.
“I miss school. Whatâ€™s wrong with me?”
“I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“I'm really grateful for all the projects I've been involved in and the parts I've played.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.”
“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”
“I'm finished with destroying for a while. It's not like I'm running around saying, 'What else can I destroy?'”

Source : Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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