"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."

-- Jonathan Dimbleby

#Thinking Quotes #Sound Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Good grief. If we canâ€™t laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyoneâ€™s feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call â€œthe lowest common denominator of butthurt.”
“Failure is never a reason not to try again.”

Source : Martha Albrand (1950). “Wait for the Dawn”
“Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in oneâ€™s neighbor, in the existence of oneâ€™s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.”
“One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance. ... [Parents] dare not risk assuming that the sudden quiet from the toddlers' room means they are studying with Baby Einstein. Visualize fratricidal stranglings and electric outlets stabbed with forks: this is how we have reproduced our genomes.”
“Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.”
“We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.”
“Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.”
“I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.”

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