"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."

-- Jack Prelutsky

#Writing Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Play Quotes

“The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.”
“You didn't win the game of life by losing the least. That would be one of those-what were they called again?-Pyrrhic victories. Real winning was having the most to lose, even if it meant you might lose it all. Even though it meant you would lose it all, sooner or later.”

Source : Tommy Wallach (2015). “We All Looked Up”, p.335, Simon and Schuster
“Take a firm grasp on Godâ€™s sovereignty and trust His love even when you donâ€™t understand His purpose.”
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience, and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk; culture-death is a clear possibility.”

Source : Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.129, Penguin
“I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.”
“Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.”
“Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.”

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