"He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other."

-- Quintus Ennius

#Light Quotes #Giving Quotes #Way Quotes

“President tends to feel that he cannot go beyond what the public will support him in doing. So he tries not to decide what is the best course so much as to decide what the people will support.”
“Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.”

Source : Marcel Theroux (2013). “Strange Bodies”, p.74, Faber & Faber
“Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of having done something full and luminous, and suddenly, when you see it on the screen, it's turned back into a tiny little thing.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.”
“What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?”
“If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio,”
“This is everything to me. If I don't have this, I don't know what else I'll be doing. I personally have found where I belong. You can cut back to photos of me holding, uh, paper championships. That was truly my dream. This is what I was born to do. As far as walking away from all this to do something else, I don't..I just don't...I don't see the rationality.”
“Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.”

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