"It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky."

-- Upton Sinclair

#Sky Quotes #Littles Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.”
“Remember this moment. If we don't convince the field marshal (Fedor von Bock) to fly to Hitler at once and have these orders (Commissar Order) canceled, the German people will be burdened with a guilt the world will not forget in a hundred years. This guilt will fall not only on Hitler, Himmler, GÃ¶ring, and their comrades but on you and me, your wife and mine, your children and mine, that woman crossing the street, and those children over there playing ball.”

Source : "Plotting Hitler's Death" by Joachim Fest, (p. 175), 1994.
“I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out.”
“As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone.”

Source : David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.399, Pan Macmillan
“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.”

Source : Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.155, Vintage
“Truth and news are not the same thing.”
“I've never been any good with authority.”

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