"People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to."

-- Andy Stanley

#People Quotes #Mess Quotes #Plans Quotes

“The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.”
“They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us flying away with heads like balloons. We taught our dogs to love the flavor of homework and became expert forgers of our parentsÃ¢Â€Â™ signatures. We knew they were teaching us how to die but some of us said no in our stealthy and stubborn ways.”

Source : Vern Rutsala (2004). “A Handbook for Writers: New & Selected Prose Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
“...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.”
“I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.”

Source : "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.
“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”
“You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.”
“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.”

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