"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"

-- Charles Ives

#Love Quotes #Children Quotes #Nice Quotes

“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”
“You can't blame me for who I am.”

Source : Song: Maybe You're Right, Album: Bangerz, 2013
“Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.”
“Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun”
“I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.”
“So why are we having to fight in 2012 against politicians who want to end access to birth control? It's like we woke up in a bad episode of 'Mad Men.”

Source : "Cecile Richards DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
“Before you meet the love of your life, there's usually one guy you date that you try to convince yourself is him. Let me save you some time: He's not.”

Source : Jenny Mollen (2014). “I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People”, p.51, St. Martin's Press
“I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.”

Source : "The Research University: Too Vital to Fail" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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