"I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Life Quotes #Winter Quotes #Hands Quotes

“There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.”
“You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.”
“I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.44, University of Georgia Press
“I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.”
“One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths.”
“I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.”
“When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.”

Source : "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.
“An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.”

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