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“The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.”
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“Whatever goal you set for yourself, conquer it.”
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“Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.”
Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1983). “First love”, Viking Adult
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“When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.”
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“When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.”
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“Read at whim! Read at whim!”
Source : "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables" by Randall Jarrell, (pp. 112-113), 1962.
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“Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus.”
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“If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.”