"In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels."

-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Children Quotes #Mourning Quotes #Dresses Quotes

“[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.”

Source : Marie Winn (2002). “The Plug-in Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life”, Penguin Group USA
“Some people get where they hope to in this world. Most of us don't.”

Source : James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.216, Penguin
“Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.”
“I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.”
“But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.”
“I believe in strength over lack of weakness.”
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”
“When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.”

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