"Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Georg Brandes

#School Quotes #Home Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“I can tell you for sure: people who are at their peak right now will not sustain that. You can't. It's against the law of nature.”
“Yeah, I am a guy working on physics outside of academia. But I'm nowhere near Einstein's caliber.”
“Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually if you care to look with purged eyes.”

Source : "The London Adventure". Book by Arthur Machen, p.25, 1924.
“Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really matter until there's a story - until someone comes in and holds us hostage.”

Source : Source: www.vulture.com
“Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!”

Source : "Former Cosmo editor Gurley Brown dead at 90", www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.
“Nothing is more abstract than reality.”

Source : Karen Wilkin, Giorgio Morandi (2007). “Giorgio Morandi: works, writings and interviews”, Poligrafa Ediciones Sa
“I'd like to think I'm a serious legislator and trying to get things done.”
“All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest, is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye.”

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