"Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace."

-- Langston Hughes

#Dream Quotes #Cat Quotes #Daddy Quotes

“The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.”

Source : "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 251), 1978.
“The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.”
“Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart...”
“I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.”
“The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh.”
“Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city ...”
“The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.”

Source : Gordon W. Allport (1964). “Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”
“By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon”

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