"I read good. I was an English major."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#English Major Quotes #Majors Quotes

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”
“While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.”
“I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.”
“American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really beautiful if we can keep doing that instead of just fluffing everything up and hiding again.”

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“Seeking is not always the way to find.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”
“Something told the wild geese It was time to go. Though the fields lay golden Something whispered, "snow." Leaves were green and stirring, Berries, luster-glossed, But beneath warm feathers Something cautioned, "frost." All the sagging orchards Steamed with amber spice But each wild breast stiffened At remembered ice. Something told the wild geese It was time to fly- Summer sun was on their wings, Winter in their cry.”

Source : Rachel Field (1934). “Branches Green”
“At the beginning of my career, a more senior photographer told me to shoot stories on women and I didn't want to. But I spent two and a half years in India and chose to do stories about women because I was shocked by their treatment. My stories in the Middle East and on the border of Europe and Asia were a response to my time in India. They weren't driven by a feminist idea but when you're moved by women's issues in these countries you can't help becoming a feminist somehow.”
“If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.”

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