"By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one"

-- Clifton Fadiman

#School Quotes #Men Quotes #Trying Quotes

“She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can't ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again â€” on principle.”
“[on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit and then I started giggling because I know Martin, I don't know Bilbo. For Martin to be sitting there playing Bilbo is amazing. He's going to be amazing, he's going to be fantastic in this film.”
“I don't want to play in pain. I'm 25, it's my life.”
“New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.”
“Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.”
“What would you dare to dream if you knew you wouldn't fail?”
“I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class.”
“Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.”

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