"The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm"

-- Leonard Bernstein

#Play Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don't know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn't really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?”
“I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.”
“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”

Source : Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”
“Words may help and silence may help, but the one thing needful is that the heart should turn to its Maker as the needle turns to the pole. For this we must be still.”

Source : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”
“... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.”
“I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.”
“The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?”

Source : "The Mentalist Finale". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. May 26, 2011.
“The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.”

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