"My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her."

-- Loni Anderson

#Mom Quotes #Fire Quotes #Doors Quotes

“I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.”
“I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect.”
“You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.”
“As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.”

Source : Alison Lurie (2012). “The Nowhere City: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art some time ago held a display of contemporary art at which $52,000 was awarded to American sculptors, painters, and artists in allied fields. The award for the best painting went to the canvas of an Illinois artist. It was described as "a macabre, detailed work showing a closed door bearing a funeral wreath." Equally striking was the work's title: "That which I should have done, I did not do."”
“In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“In the first two years this is a man [Clinton] who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldnâ€™t those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?”

Source : "Welfare Reform: Pray for the Children?". MSNBC's "InterNight" with David Maraniss, archive.mrc.org. October 10, 1996.
“Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.”

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