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“You know, and I don't say this, I'll say as someone who lived in Israel for a long time, let me call myself someone who spent six or seven years in Jerusalem, we don't need any more Americans flying over to fix things. They need to fix it. I'm someone who fell in love with the city and fell in love with a place, and has high hopes for everyone there, the good people on both sides.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.”
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“While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business.”
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“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.”
Source : "De divina proportione". Book by Luca Pacioli, June 1, 1509.
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“Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.”
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“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.”
Source : P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Uneasy Money: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.”
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“Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.”
