"I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand apart with an army: My mind is graven with ships."

-- Hilda Doolittle

#War Quotes #Army Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.”
“I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.”

Source : Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict”
“The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare.”
“With 'Good Will Hunting,' Miramax made certain the recruited audience wasn't expecting to laugh at Robin Williams like they normally do. From my limited experience, you can really blow test screenings by conducting them in the wrong way.”
“We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back”

Source : "Surveillance and Its Discontents: A Conversation Across Cyberspace with Edward Snowden and John Perry Barlow". techpresident.com. June 12, 2014.
“You meet yourself when you start selling.”
“You may dazzle the mind with a thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful instrument of self-destruction.”
“What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.”

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