"There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant â€” sail for Asia and stumble on America â€” and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along."

-- Jess Walter

#Men Quotes #America Quotes #Two Quotes

“The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing.”
“Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace”
“Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years”
“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.”
“For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.”
“Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?”
“Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.”

Source : Quoted in Thomas Carlyle, History of the French Revolution (1837)
“You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful.”

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