"My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness."

-- Al Pacino

#Shy Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Language Quotes

“Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.”
“The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.”
“A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities - a natural defectiveness.”
“Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.”
“We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.”
“I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.”
“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.”

Source : Paul Auster (2012). “Winter Journal”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright, Conversed as they sat on the green. They gazed on each other with tender delight, Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight-- The maiden's the Fair Imogene.”

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