"But talentâ€”if you don't encourage it, if you don't train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don't tame it and teach it to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn't matter how fast it is. It's useless."

-- Elizabeth Hand

#Running Quotes #Horse Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.”
“My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go. Whether it's going out and auditioning for the play or trying out for the basketball team, you have to explore your boundaries and see where you really want to go and the only way you can do that is to break out of your shell.”
“The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.”

Source : Enver Hoxha, Instituti i Studimeve Marksiste-Leniniste (1974). “Selected works”
“I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...”
“Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.2, Harvard University Press
“I love the Bach Prelude No. 2 in C Minor and had that stuck in my head: why don't I put this on Imaginaryland? So I brought it to my friend Tom Grimley who recorded That Dog's first record. I played him all my a cappella pieces, and he said, "P, you should really make a record, it would be great! You can record it at my studio and I'll put it out!"”
“Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have, perchance, in marble mockery a bust, Poised on a pedestal, above his sleeping dust.”

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